Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Slow startup delay caused byuninitialized variable...

[<arobincaron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have confirmed that the code included in libgcrypt_11 part of the 
wireshark-setup-99.5-SVN-20350.exe has fixed the issue.

Thank you,

Robin Caron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Developer support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Slow startup delay caused byuninitializedvariable...> arobincaron@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I cannot find the source code for gcry_rndw32_gather_random.  In the
> > patched version of libgcrypt used with Wireshark 0.99.4 there is an
> > uninitialized variable being checked and since it is not consistently
> > set will cause the slow random bit generation code to be used instead of
> > existing after getting them using CryptGenRandom.  The bad code
> > reference is right after the memset done to clear out the random bits.
> >
> > I would be glad to offer a patch if someone can point me to where the
> > correct code for this function is.
>
> Can you try one of the recent installers from
>
>  http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/win32/
>
> and see if the  problem still exists?  I updated the GNUTLS package in
> the installer recently, which hopefully fixes the problem.
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