Re: Dissector plugin not working with wireshark 1.12.3

[Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>]

2015-02-17 14:07 GMT+01:00 Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>:

> 2015-02-17 12:41 GMT+01:00 yannick omnes <yomnes () aviwest com>:
>
> >  Hi Pascal,
> >
> > Thank you for your answer,
> >
> > The plugin crashes (dereferencing a NULL pointer) in the second iteration
> > of the loop in proto_register_field_array. Looking around, i noticed that
> > the bitmask field of header_field_info changed betwen 1.10.6 and 1.12.3, it
> > was a guint64 and is now a guint32. I didn't update my wireshark-dev
> > package (just noticed that) so that might be the problem. Where can I find
> > the dev package for wireshark 1.12.3 ? (The one provided by aptitude is
> > out-of-date)
>
> Hi Yannick,
>
> you can find the Wireshark 1.12.3 source code on this page:
> https://www.wireshark.org/download.html . It contains the full source
> tree, including the include files you might need to compile your plugin.
> Note that according to
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=wireshark-de, there is also a
> wheezy-backports repository that provides the wireshark-dev package for
> 1.12.1 which should be compatible with 1.12.3.
> As you noticed, it's always mandatory to recompile a plugin between major
> Wireshark releases as there is no guarantee that the internal API will be
> compatible (well let's say that it's guaranteed that it will NOT be
> compatible ;) ).
Hi Yannick,

For Ubuntu there is a PPA with 1.12.x at
https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable maintained by
us.

Cheers,
Balint



> > Regards,
> >
> > Yannick
> >
> >
> > Le 17/02/2015 10:42, Pascal Quantin a écrit :
> >
> >  2015-02-17 10:08 GMT+01:00 yannick omnes <yomnes () aviwest com>:
> >
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I've recently updated my Wireshark to 1.12.3. I created a plugin that
> > > worked fine with previous versions but now I'm facing some problems.
> > >
> > > The plugins still compile and is correctly loaded by wireshark on Windows
> > >
> > > On my ubuntu 14.04, it is not loaded anymore. The problem seems to come
> > > from the register fonction. If there is only one element in the
> > > hf_register_info array, the plugin is being correctly loaded by Wireshark.
> > > But with more than one items, Wireshark crashes.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what's wrong ?
> >
> >  Hi Yannick,
> >
> >  without having access to your code, it's almost impossible to provide
> > you support. Have you checked with a debugger where it fails more
> > precisely? What version were you using previously?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pascal.
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