Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Packet Size limited during capture message

[Brian Oleksa <oleksab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakub

Excellent...!!!

That was the problem..!!

I simply commented out the following...(which called gmtime())

       proto_tree_add_time_format(helen_tree, hf_helen_txTime, tvb, 
offset, 8, &t,
           "Date: %s %2d, %d %02d:%02d:%02d 
UTC",mon_names[tmp->tm_mon],tmp->tm_mday,
           tmp->tm_year + 1900,tmp->tm_hour,tmp->tm_min,tmp->tm_sec);

And it did NOT crash..!! 

You mentioned about putting in an if statement to check it  

if (abs_time->secs > 2000000000) tmp = NULL;

Where would / could you put this at..?? And what would you do if it was 
null..??

Thanks,
Brian



Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:59:36AM -0400, Brian Oleksa wrote:
>   
> > So I did some more troubleshooting only to find the following:
> > The dissector crashes in WinXP but not on my Fedora Core 9 box. This is 
> > weird.
> >
> > Using editcap... I was able to find the frame on windows to which wireshark 
> > crashed on (which was frame 17641).
> > I opened the same .pcap file on my FC-9 box (it did not crash)...but I went 
> > to frame 17641 only to find out that it is a Malformed Packet.
> >
> > Any thoughts..??
> >     
>
> I'd bet on calls to gmtime().
>
> 1/ gmtime() can return NULL.
> 2/ Windows-specific: 
>    These functions validate their parameter. (...) if the timer value is negative, these functions invoke an invalid
>    parameter handler, as described in Parameter Validation. [1]
>
>    The behavior of the C Runtime when an invalid parameter is found is to call the currently assigned invalid parameter handler. 
>    The default invalid parameter invokes Watson crash reporting, which *causes the application to crash* (...) [2]
>
> Which reminds me of some checks in to_str.c ( e.g. if (abs_time->secs > 2000000000) tmp = NULL; )
> maybe custom handler for _set_invalid_parameter_handler() [3] would be enough?
> (I can't test it ;/)
>
> Cheers.
>
> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0z9czt0w%28VS.80%29.aspx
> [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ksazx244%28VS.80%29.aspx
> [3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a9yf33zb%28VS.80%29.aspx
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