Enabling the openwire protocol is leaking memory and crashes wireshark in few seconds with out of memory message

This issue was migrated from bug 9248 in our old bug tracker.

Original bug information:

Reporter: Murali
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wireshark
Component: GTK+ UI
OS: Windows 7
Platform: x86
Version: 1.10.2

Attachments:

Client-Startup.pcapng: Capture file
packet-openwire.c.patch: Bugfix loop

See also: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6339

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