On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:31:46PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:18:01PM -0500, Faber, Sidney wrote: > > Perhaps you've heard of the recent SNMP issues surrounding CERT advisory > > 2002-03 (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html). I was working > > with the tool to test HP printers, and found a malformed SNMP packet that > > killed HP JetDirect cards. I wanted to take a look at the packet, so I > > pulled up my trusty copy of Ethereal (thank you!), and found that it also > > choked on the packet. Whenever it is decoded for display, I get a dialog > > box "GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1 bytes aborting...". > > A change that should fix that has already been checked in, and should > appear in the next release.
Note that "should fix that" means "should fix that particular problem"; there are some other problems elsewhere, which are also being checked.
