Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] fix for bug 742

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:27:37 +0100
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:35:48PM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> the attached patch should fix bug 742.

Well, yes and no.

> The issue is (at least, I think so...) in the packet-x509af dissector
> A null pointer is passes as parameter of a " %s " format string. 
> Something like:
> 
> printf("%s", NULL);
> 
> it does not hurt under linux and is fatal under windows.
...
> Index: epan/dissectors/packet-x509af.c

Please read the first line of this file and fix the problem accordingly
:-)

 ciao
       Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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