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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:45:40 +0000
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Interface descriptions via pcap broken
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:40:57 -0600
Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW, if you give your devices descriptions, libpcap
> starts to behave again; this could be a clue to the source of the bug
> :/

0xa5 is the malloc fill pattern when debugging is enabled, and
having recently reinstalled FreeBSD I forgot to create the malloc.conf
symlink. So something's reading from uninitialized memory.

-- 
Bruce Cran