Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11452] Capinfos crashes on pcap-ng files with no IDBs

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:41:57 +0000

Comment # 3 on bug 11452 from 
(In reply to Hadriel Kaplan from comment #1)
> It's not really a crash - it failed an assertion, and apparently the
> assertion revealed a bug in the wiretap PCAPNG file reader. The file reader
> is successfully opening a PCAPNG file without any IDBs, even though that
> should make it a malformed file and it should error when opening it.

Nope.

A pcap-ng file with packet blocks or other blocks that refer to interfaces for
which there's no IDB is malformed, but a pcap-ng file with no IDBs and no
blocks that refer to interfaces is, while probably somewhat trivial and
uninteresting, isn't malformed.

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