Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] NIS+ or NFS decode bug with ethereal v0.8.18

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:31:42 -0700
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Ronald W. Henderson wrote:
> I have encountered what I believe to be a  NIS or NIS+ decode bug with
> ethereal v0.8.18:

There were a number of places (not only in those dissectors) where an
FT_STRING field was used for an opaque array of bytes; doing so will
cause that crash (as a consequence of another fix, on 0.8.18, to keep
Ethereal from crashing if an FT_BYTES field was used for an opaque array
of bytes).

I have checked in fixes for those; they will show up in the next
release.  We should consider putting out a new release to pick up those
fixes.