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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Slow startup delay caused byuninitialized variable...

Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:16:13 -0500
I have confirmed that the code included in libgcrypt_11 part of the wireshark-setup-99.5-SVN-20350.exe has fixed the issue.

Thank you,

Robin Caron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Developer support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Slow startup delay caused byuninitializedvariable...> arobincaron@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I cannot find the source code for gcry_rndw32_gather_random.  In the
patched version of libgcrypt used with Wireshark 0.99.4 there is an
uninitialized variable being checked and since it is not consistently
set will cause the slow random bit generation code to be used instead of
existing after getting them using CryptGenRandom.  The bad code
reference is right after the memset done to clear out the random bits.

I would be glad to offer a patch if someone can point me to where the
correct code for this function is.

Can you try one of the recent installers from

 http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/win32/

and see if the  problem still exists?  I updated the GNUTLS package in
the installer recently, which hopefully fixes the problem.
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