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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6367] Correct IPv6 packet reported as malformed

Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 03:40:51 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6367

Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #4 from Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-04-05 03:40:51 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> >So maybe adding a case for "known bad" extension types
> > would make sense.
> In the sample the extension Type is 99 (Any private encryption scheme...)
> It is impossible to known how to dissect this type 
> >I think that the approach Wireshark follows is the right one: Try to dissect
> >unknown header types like unknown TLVs by dumping them and going to the next
> >extension header
> I also think it's the right approach and there is a draft (
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-06) about uniform the IPv6
> Extension Header
> Close this bug with the WONTFIX resolution ?
Yes...

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