Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Defect in reassembling TCP stream. Bug and Patch are availab

From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:57:29 +0100


Le 28 mars 2014 16:52, "Pavel Karneliuk" <Pavel_Karneliuk@xxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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> Hi Pascal,
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> thank you for answer. I saw your commits to follow.c and I hoped for your reply.
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> 450:if( newseq > seq[idx] ) {
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> I think – Yes. It compares sequence numbers.
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> 459: if ( current->data_len > new_pos ) {
> I am sure,  that – No. Because it compares length of data from fragment instead of sequence numbers.
Doh that's what happens when you reply without looking carefully at the code ;)
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> There are some places in check_fragments() and reassemble_tcp() with a “naive” comparison of sequence numbers:
> 369: if( sequence < seq[src_index] ) {
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> I think, they should be replaced with macros from packet-tcp.h 51-55.  At least to be uniformly.

As Graham suggested, it would be great if you could submit a patch on gerrit against master branch. Would it be feasible?

Regards,
Pascal.