Re: Malformed Packet

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:45 AM, Ewgenij Sokolovski <ewgenijkkg () gmx de> 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).
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