Dear Members,
I have a PCAP file which contains a fragmented 802.11 A-MSDU. At the last frame where reassembly happens, Wireshark tells me: Malformed Packet (Exception occured). After analyzing the issue carefully, I came to the conclusion that there might be a bug in Wireshark.
The reason being is that if I change the simulator to write the MSDU subframe header length field in little endian byte order, then the packet validation error goes away. In this case, I can see all MSDUs properly in the reassembled A-MSDU.
Unfortunately, at the same time a new error appears due to incorrect MSDU length during dissecting. I think the error is caused by the fact that the packet validator assumes little endian byte order, while the dissecting code *correctly* assumes big endian byte order as required by the standard.
I am using Wireshark 2.0.2. Could somebody give me some hints whether I'm right or wrong?
Best regards,
Levente Meszaros
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