Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8197] PER dissector crash

Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 23:44:34 +0000

changed bug 8197

What Removed Added
Version 1.8.4 SVN
Severity Major Minor

Comment # 13 on bug 8197 from
(In reply to comment #9)
> I get the crash in Fedora 17.  Valgrind complains thus:
> 
> ~~~
> ==1239== Command: /home/morriss/Projects/wireshark/source2/.libs/lt-tshark
> -Vx -nr /tmp/fuzz-8197.pcap
> ==1239== 
> ==1239== Invalid read of size 1
> ==1239==    at 0x4104D5: print_hex_data_buffer (print.c:997)
> ==1239==    by 0x411E48: print_hex_data (print.c:915)
> ==1239==    by 0x4197B6: print_packet (tshark.c:3589)
> ==1239==    by 0x41AFAD: process_packet (tshark.c:3198)
> ==1239==    by 0x40DE9A: main (tshark.c:2978)
> ==1239==  Address 0x9216800 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 1 free'd
> ==1239==    at 0x4A07786: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:446)
> ==1239==    by 0x35ACC4D50E: g_free (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.3200.4)
> ==1239==    by 0x613ECDB: emem_free_all (emem.c:1239)
> ==1239==    by 0x6141828: epan_dissect_run_with_taps (epan.c:218)
> ==1239==    by 0x41AEAC: process_packet (tshark.c:3181)
> ==1239==    by 0x40DE9A: main (tshark.c:2978)

> 
> The first ("invalid read of size 1") is because tvb_new_octet_aligned() is
> returning an ep_alloc'd buffer which is then being added as a data source
> (add_new_data_source()).  I still need to go back and read about why ep_
> allocations started disappearing after dissection is complete but before
> we're done displaying what we've dissected.  Anyway, this isn't causing the
> crash.

The correct fix for this particular issue (although it is basically a non-issue
in practice due to some emem/wmem internals) is to have tvb_new_octet_aligned
use the pinfo-scoped pool (pinfo->pool) instead of ephemeral or packet-scoped
memory. Unfortunately, this will require passing pinfo pointers into all sorts
of functions that don't already have them (in the PER dissector at least) so
isn't a simple change.


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