Re: Bug in print-ppp.c

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

> This looks like Debian bug #255179, I fixed it differently by not trying
> to analyze IPV6CP, a comment in print-ppp.c says that it's not supported
> (yet).
>
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255179&archive=yes
>
> Corresponding fix currently in the Debian package (notice how the IPV6CP
> case is outside #ifdef INET6, too):

While this does solve the problem for IPV6CP, there are now other ways
for the code to reach this point - i.e other protocols - and just applying
this check would leave tcpdump vulnerable to crashing if it encountered
one of those.

Darren
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