When doing remote capturing using WinPCap, dumpcap crashes inside the WinPCap

library when no capture filter is used. Then cfilter is NULL and 
capture_loop_init_filter() does not call compile_capture_filter() and
pcap_setfilter(). Providing an empty string instead of NULL works around
the problem.


git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@37588 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dumpcap.c b/dumpcap.c
index 2ca9becbb6..f6268c7c66 100644
--- a/dumpcap.c
+++ b/dumpcap.c
@@ -3068,9 +3068,14 @@ capture_loop_start(capture_options *capture_opts, gboolean *stats_known, struct
         pcap_opts = g_array_index(global_ld.pcaps, pcap_options *, i);
         interface_opts = g_array_index(capture_opts->ifaces, interface_options, i);
         /* init the input filter from the network interface (capture pipe will do nothing) */
+        /*
+         * When remote capturing WinPCap crashes when the capture filter
+         * is NULL. This might be a bug in WPCap. Therefore we provide an emtpy
+         * string.
+         */
         switch (capture_loop_init_filter(pcap_opts->pcap_h, pcap_opts->from_cap_pipe,
                                          interface_opts.name,
-                                         interface_opts.cfilter)) {
+                                         interface_opts.cfilter?interface_opts.cfilter:"")) {
 
         case INITFILTER_NO_ERROR:
             break;