Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How many tree items is too many?

["Gilbert Ramirez" <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Make the limit high, to guard against infinite loops. Not too low, as
if we were trying to impose some design on the dissector. So even  a
number like 10,000 is good. That will guard against infinite loops,
and [hopefully] won't break a good dissector.

--gilbert

On 8/22/06, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would it make sense to place a maximum limit on the number of items in a
> protocol tree?  Right now, if a dissector tries to add a large number of
> items to the tree (e.g. during an infinite loop) Wireshark will happily
> oblige until the system runs out of memory.
>
> If so, what's a good number?  500? 1000?
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