Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal crashes after capture

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:43:26 -0800
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:59:27PM -0500, Peter Olson wrote:
> Why does Ethereal crash after a capture is complete?

Probably because there's a bug in the dissector for some protocol, and
your networks contain traffic that triggers the bug.

We'd need either a sample capture that causes the crash, or a stack
trace for the crash, to figure out where the bug is.