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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Updating plugin for 1.4.0

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:06:00 +0200

Hi Beth,

Things have been tightened up to prevent crashes from happening. Seems that your dissector does something it shouldn't.

Get out your debugger and see what it tells you.

Thanks,
Jaap

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:49:03 -0400, Beth <beth.tridium@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wrote some plugins under 1.2.x awhile back, which have been used successfully for some time now.  

I tried using them with 1.4.0 (hey it was worth a shot :) but got an error so I downloaded the 1.4.0 tarball and rebuilt them.  However I still get the error!  Can those of you with 1.4 knowledge suggest where I should start looking for the problem?  The error is simply:
10:39:15          Warn Dissector bug, protocol MyProto, in packet 1: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION: dissector accessed an invalid memory address
Whatever it is, it's something that happens with 1.4.0 but not with 1.2.11 .  I have not (yet) touched the plugin source code.
Any suggestions appreciated!
b.