Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] seg fault - gtkclist ?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
> #0  chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x40528f00, nb=16) at malloc.c:2904
> #1  0x4047f13a in __libc_malloc (bytes=5) at malloc.c:2714

This can be result of malloc arena damage, which can be caused by
something scribbling past the end of a mallocated chunk of data.

You might want to see if you can create a minimal capture necessary to
provoke the crash, and then audit the memory allocations done when
reading the capture in.