Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Cert Advisory 2002-03 / SNMP

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:36:32 -0800
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:31:46PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:18:01PM -0500, Faber, Sidney wrote:
> > Perhaps you've heard of the recent SNMP issues surrounding CERT advisory
> > 2002-03 (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html).  I was working
> > with the tool to test HP printers, and found a malformed SNMP packet that
> > killed HP JetDirect cards.  I wanted to take a look at the packet, so I
> > pulled up my trusty copy of Ethereal (thank you!), and found that it also
> > choked on the packet.  Whenever it is decoded for display, I get a dialog
> > box "GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1 bytes aborting...".  
> 
> A change that should fix that has already been checked in, and should
> appear in the next release.

Note that "should fix that" means "should fix that particular problem";
there are some other problems elsewhere, which are also being checked.