Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Handling of TVBs

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I understand the handling and raising of exceptions for TVBs based
on the length and the reported length if an accessors goes beyond the 
limit.

But should not the case reported length <> length also raise an 
exception?
Or how should one handle the case where I know from the protocol 
specification
that some part of the message has a specific length (reported length) 
but
the actual length is longer. If it is shorter an exception will be 
raised, because
the dissection will call some accessors. I do not think that it is a 
good idea
to handle all the cases where the length > reported length or better 
length <>
reported length separately in all dissectors.

Any ideas, comments?

Best regards
Michael

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