Re: why does wireshark believe that libpcap has a 65535 max packet size?

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

On Nov 23, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Sam Roberts wrote:

> See definiton of WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE, and use in wiretap/libpcap.c.
>
> Seems to me it should be checking this (untested):
>
>  if (hdr->hdr.incl_len > wth->snapshot_length) { // not WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE!

There is no guarantee that wth->snapshot_length is non-zero, given that not all capture file formats Wireshark supports 
put an explicit snapshot length into the file.

Checking against a maximum packet size prevents Wireshark from trying to allocate a huge amount of memory if you have a 
corrupted packet file, but a larger maximum would make sense.

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