Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Possible IEEE 802.11 dissector bug

[Loránd Jakab <lorand.jakab@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,
I have a problem with the PDML output of some IEEE 802.11 frames. I use
tethereal to transform binary captures to PDML, then I wrote a Perl
script based on the XML::Parser module to extract some information.
Recently I came across a probably malformed packed, that causes
tethereal to output binary data into the PDML file, which breaks the
parser. The binary data is written to the "show" attribute's value
field. If it is a malformed packet, it would be best that the dissector
would put only ASCII charcters in that field, maybe the hexa or octal
values...

A packet that demonstrates the problem is attached.

Could someone please post a patch?

Thanks,
Lori
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o o o  Lorand Jakab
o o o  Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
o o o  Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors
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