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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How many tree items is too many?

From: "Gilbert Ramirez" <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:14:07 -0500
Make the limit high, to guard against infinite loops. Not too low, as
if we were trying to impose some design on the dissector. So even  a
number like 10,000 is good. That will guard against infinite loops,
and [hopefully] won't break a good dissector.

--gilbert

On 8/22/06, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Would it make sense to place a maximum limit on the number of items in a
protocol tree?  Right now, if a dissector tries to add a large number of
items to the tree (e.g. during an infinite loop) Wireshark will happily
oblige until the system runs out of memory.

If so, what's a good number?  500? 1000?
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