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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Backporting fuzztest fixes

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:10:17 -0700
Jaap Keuter wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> There have been a renewed influx of fuzztest bugs, due to improved
> reporting.
> Now a lot have/are being fixed, but little has appeared on the 1.2.2
> roadmap for backporting. 
> Shouldn't this be done? 

I've added a couple of obvious ones to the list. The others are the
result of trying to add integer items with the wrong length, e.g. a
20-byte FT_UINT32. As pointed out in bug 3884, we might want to have
proto.c handle this more gracefully instead of adding length checks to a
lot of dissectors.