Bug 608274

Summary: IndexError: string index out of range
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Horne <john.horne>
Component: pcapdiffAssignee: Gwyn Ciesla <gwync>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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First compressed pcap file.
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Second compressed pcap file. none

Description John Horne 2010-06-26 15:20:59 UTC
Description of problem:
Trying to compare two pcap files and I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pcapdiff", line 5, in <module>
    import pcapdiff
  File "/usr/share/pcapdiff/pcapdiff.py", line 263, in <module>
    next['remote'] = get_packet(pcap_remote)
  File "/usr/share/pcapdiff/pcapdiff.py", line 152, in get_packet
    spacket = parse_and_save(packet)
  File "/usr/share/pcapdiff/pcapdiff_helper.py", line 89, in parse_and_save
    spacket['ip_total_length'] = 256*ord(ip_packet[2])+ord(ip_packet[3])
IndexError: string index out of range

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pcapdiff-0.1-7.fc13.noarch
pcapy-0.10.5-6.fc12.x86_64

'uname -a' is:

Linux jhorne 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 09:38:12 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

How reproducible:
Occurs every time with the 2 pcap files I have.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
See error above.

Expected results:
No errors should be output.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Gwyn Ciesla 2010-06-29 14:07:24 UTC
Would you mind attaching the two files?

Comment 2 John Horne 2010-06-29 15:55:17 UTC
I can, but they are 12MB and 54MB in size respectively. Do you really want me to attach them?



John.

Comment 3 Gwyn Ciesla 2010-07-13 12:49:20 UTC
Gulp.

Do you have any webspace you can put them on briefly?  Or do the files possibly contain anything sensitive?  If not, see if BZ will let you attach them.  Not sure what the limit is.

Comment 4 John Horne 2010-07-14 15:41:34 UTC
Created attachment 431820 [details]
First compressed pcap file.

Comment 5 John Horne 2010-07-14 15:43:13 UTC
Created attachment 431823 [details]
Second compressed pcap file.

Okay, both files should now be attached.

Comment 6 Gwyn Ciesla 2010-12-14 02:16:18 UTC
Sorry for the delay, which is local and which is remote, and what were the IPs for each?

Comment 7 John Horne 2010-12-14 14:54:00 UTC
First attachment (tcpdump file) is 'local'. Its IP address is 141.163.195.250. The remote IP address is 141.163.66.101.

Comment 8 Gwyn Ciesla 2010-12-14 19:08:20 UTC
Interesting.  From everything I can figure, I wonder if there isn't a problem with one of the files.  The error makes it look like there's a chunk missing from a packet and it's not handling it gracefully.  Can you produce another set of dumps that crash pcapdiff?

Comment 9 John Horne 2010-12-14 21:02:41 UTC
No, not really. This was 6 months ago when we were trying to resolve a particular problem. Things have now moved on: the problem was resolved (I gather), and one of the servers involved now performs a different function. So not really possible to get any other dumps from them.

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