Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] epan_base64_decode(): failure when string contains a NUL character

[Uli Heilmeier <zeugs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 21.04.13 22:29, schrieb Evan Huus:

>> There is only one issue left: How can I split up this string. The
>> g_strsplit() function seems to don't accept NULL as a delimiter.
> 
> It depends what you need the results for. If you just need them
> separated by a NULL then they're already in that state, you can just
> use strlen and pointer arithmetic.

Yeah, your right. This way it was easy to split up the data.
Thanks a lot for this tip.

I added the patch to bug 8600.

> 
> If you need discrete copies of each substring in their own memory
> space you can just do the above and then strdup them.
> 
> A word of warning though: be sure to sanity check everything, as you
> can't assume that the string coming out of the packet will be sane, or
> will contain the correct number of NULLs (it may not contain any NULLs
> at all, in which case just calling strlen will run past the end of the
> buffer). Also be sure to use managed memory (see doc/README.wmem)
> unless you have a specific reason not to.

Thanks for the warning. I hope I added the right checks to my code.

Cheers
Uli