Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8825] tshark.c crash

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Comment # 7 on bug 8825 from Evan Huus

Further notes from investigation:

- You have to run valgrind-wireshark.sh with -T (or straight tshark with -Vx)
in order to expose the crash, as otherwise the bytes are never read.

- The following patch 'fixes' the crash by never adding reassembled TCP frames
as data sources:

Index: epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c
===================================================================
--- epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c    (revision 50688)
+++ epan/dissectors/packet-tcp.c    (working copy)
@@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@
             next_tvb = tvb_new_chain(tvb, ipfd_head->tvb_data);

             /* add desegmented data to the data source list */
-            add_new_data_source(pinfo, next_tvb, "Reassembled TCP");
+            /*add_new_data_source(pinfo, next_tvb, "Reassembled TCP");*/

             /*
              * Supply the sequence number of the first of the

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