Re: Wireshark crashes on tvb_get_const_stringz()

[Kaul <mykaul () gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Jakub Zawadzki
<darkjames-ws () darkjames pl>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:04:23PM +0200, Kaul wrote:
> > I might have used tvb_get_const_stringz() incorrectly, yet I don't think
> > Wireshark should crash:
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > tvb_get_const_stringz (tvb=0x1c01b60, offset=10, lengthp=0x9) at
> > tvbuff.c:2548
> > 2548 *lengthp = size;
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure why it crashes yet or why I am using it
> incorrectly.
>
> Last argument of tvb_get_const_stringz() takes pointer to integer (not
> value!)
> and stores length of string in it.
>
> If you want to get next N chars (not NUL terminated), and store it as
> C-string you
> can use tvb_get_ephemeral_string() instead.

Yep, discovered that. My fault. Sorry for the noise.
Y.


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