Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] MAPI decode / GLIB Error

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

Date Index Thread Index Other Months All Mailing Lists
Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next
From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 19:21:05 -0700
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 12:32:14PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 07:12:05PM +0100, Alistair.McGlinchy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This trace does not load in either ethereal or tethereal 0.9.11,  but can be
> > read by WinDump. It also can be read by Ethereal 0.9.6, which recognises
> > this as MAPI, but believes the 3rd frame is malformed.
> 
> Yes, the "actual count" field of the array of the second string in a
> MAPI logon reply appears to be something other than a byte/character
> count for that array, so the MAPI dissector is probably wrong there.

It is.

There's also a deficiency in the DCE RPC dissector that causes a crash
when the MAPI dissector problem is seen.

I've checked in fixes for both of those problems.