Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7916] Buildbot crash output: fuzz-2012-10-26-28605.pcap
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:49:23 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7916

--- Comment #14 from Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-10-29 12:49:23 PDT ---
> 
> Yes: I was expecting that the invalid memory reference in the dissector would
> be trapped via an exception and would not cause Wireshark/tshark to actually
> crash.
> 
> Without the fix in packet-mip6, I get an actual crash on my 32bit Windows
> system.
> 
> I'll dig into this a bit further.

Well...

My expectation might be reasonable, but, in actuality, there's a known problem
with the Windows Wireshark handling of certain kinds of exceptions.

See: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200704/msg00243.html

(Based upon my comment in another bug, it seems that I even knew this once upon
a time).

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