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Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] ethereal segfault

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:33:22 -0600
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:15:47PM +0100, Stefan G�del wrote:
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> Hi!
> 
> I experience a segfault with my ethereal. It is very easy to reproduce
> the error and I will enclose all information to do so.
> 
> My Kernel is version 2.2.13.
> 
> I'm using the unstable branch of Debian (e.g. Debian 2.2 or "potato")
> with the following packages:
> 
>      ethereal_0.7.7-1.deb
>      libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb
> 
> If I load this file into ethereal and click on packet nr. 4 (LPD
> response) the segfault is triggered.
> 
> Here is the backtrace of the resulting core dump:
> 
>      #0  0x402c5ffb in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
>      #1  0x402d3e73 in vsnprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
>      #2  0x8065be0 in proto_tree_add_text ()
>      #3  0x80659f5 in proto_tree_add_text ()
>      #4  0x8080097 in dissect_lpd ()
>      #5  0x809c52b in dissect_tcp ()

Thanks for the bug report. This problem was fixed in Ethereal 0.7.8.
The current version of Ethereal is 0.7.9. You might try compiling from
source (http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution) until the Debian
package is made more current.

--gilbert