On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 01:44:41PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > jmayer@egg epan$ wireshark
> > ../../asn1/c1222/packet-c1222-template.c:1427:3: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 1, which is declared to never be null
> > ../../asn1/c1222/packet-c1222-template.c:1427:3: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 2, which is declared to never be null
>
> That probably means that oid_string2encoded() failed.
>
> Pascal Quantin's working on a fix for this:
>
> https://code.wireshark.org/review/8251
>
> but presumably the failure means either that
>
> 1) you specified an invalid (not a syntactically-valid OID) setting for the "Base OID to use for relative OIDs" preference for the C.1222 dissector
>
> or
>
> 2) you have no setting for it so that the string is null (which is, as far as I know, not a syntactically-valid OID)
>
> and I strongly suspect it's 2) here, so perhaps that code should also special-case null strings. (Ultimately, we should catch syntactically-invalid OIDs rather than just silently ignoring them.)
Yes, it's case 2)
> Hopefully, the code also can handle a missing OID.
Ciao
Jörg
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