ANNOUNCEMENT: Live Wireshark University & Allegro Packets online APAC Wireshark Training Session
July 17th, 2024 | 10:00am-11:55am SGT (UTC+8) | Online

Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] info string wrong length bug

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

From: Michael Tüxen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:24:35 +0200
Dear Andrew,

could you please send me a (small) tracefile that I can reproduce (and fix)
the bug? Please send the file to 
Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you very much
Best regards
Michael

-- 
e-mail: Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001, Andrew Barrington <Andrew.Barrington@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
>All,
>     If I send a M3UA message containing an info string of for example
>"ginger"
>followed by another M3UA message with an info string of for example
>"fred" with
>the correct parameter lengths the string in this example displays as "freder"
>for the second message. i.e. it seems to have remembered the previous
>string and
>over written the changed chars whilst remembering the length of the previous
>string.
>
>Is this bug fixed in a later version/patch or is it the fact that ethereal is
>expecting a null terminated string in the info string parameter (the
>string I am
>sending is not null terminated - but then again the M3UA spec doesn't say
>explicitly whether the string should be terminated or not !!!!).
>
>Just for info this is M3UA running over TCP........
>
>(The ethereal I am using is Version 0.8.15 compiled with GTK+ 1.2.6, with
>libcap
>0.5, libz 1.1.3 without SNMP)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andrew
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Ethereal-users mailing list
>Ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users