Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Malformed Packet
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:26:57 -0800
On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:45 AM, Ewgenij Sokolovski <ewgenijkkg@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, community. While dissecting a packet I keep getting the error message
> 
> Malformed Packet (Exception occured)
> 
> Is there any possibility to "ask" Wireshark what the reason for the error is?

The reason for the "Exception occurred" error is that a dissector tried to fetch data from a tvbuff but the data was past the end of the packet (not just the end of the captured packet data, but past the end of the actual packet length).