Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] ethereal 0.7.2 crashes when decoding SNMP packets

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:55:16 -0500
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:41:51PM -0500, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> > .. this is due to the lack of a call to
> > init_mib() at the beginning of the program
> > with the SNMP library I got (ucd-snmp coming
> > with Linux RedHat 5.2). I added the init_mib
> > as the very first line of the main and
> > everything went fine...
> 
> I vaguely remember some other case where Ethereal crashed in the SNMP
> decoding code, but I can't find anything obvious in my archives of
> "ethereal-dev" and "ethereal-users", so I don't know if that means this
> has already been fixed in the CVS tree, or that we never figured out
> what it was and this might have been what it was, or what.

It was not figured out; it was a thought to be a bug in the SNMP
library. I also can't find the e-mail.

--gilbert