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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark crash on Windows (latest SVN)

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:42:26 -0800
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> isprint() doesn't have a limited input range so it shouldn't crash on 
> this call - and on my machine it doesn't do so even with the value 65513.

Feeding it anything outside an unsigned char or EOF is undefined, and
can crash on systems that use glibc:

  http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2003-12/msg00052.html