Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Netlib SQL decoder crashes

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 00:49:43 -0800
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:09:20PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> I checked in a change to zero out a data structure in the Netlib
> dissector before using it, as there is a possibility that the routine
> that's assumed to initialize it ("load_netlib_data()") might not do so
> as it won't see any TDS protocol data for the frame.
> 
> That seems to have fixed the crash.

But it didn't fix all the crashes.

> However, I still suspect the defragmentation stuff should be redone, as
> per my previous mail.

I just checked in an updated TDS dissector that redoes the
defragmentation stuff.  It still doesn't dissect all the stuff in your
capture, but I'll leave it as an exercise for TDS developers to enhance
the dissector to dissect more tokens in replies.