Impose limits on the number of records we read.

Start the limit at 2^32-1, as we use a guint32 to store the frame
number.

With Qt prior to Qt 6, lower the limit to 53 million packets; this
should fix issue #16908.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/file.h b/file.h
index 623fafb1fa..c9a5614b68 100644
--- a/file.h
+++ b/file.h
@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ typedef struct {
 } match_data;
 
 /**
+ * Set maximum number of records per capture file.
+ *
+ * @param max_records maximum number of records to support.
+ */
+extern void
+cf_set_max_records(guint max_records);
+
+/**
  * Add a capture file event callback.
  *
  * @param func The function to be called for each event.