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Error when trying to decode ESSIDs using invalid UTF-8 characters #4

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SkypLabs opened this issue Apr 2, 2018 · 2 comments
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Error when trying to decode ESSIDs using invalid UTF-8 characters #4

SkypLabs opened this issue Apr 2, 2018 · 2 comments
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SkypLabs commented Apr 2, 2018

An exception is raised when an ESSID contains invalid UTF-8 characters:

Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/threading.py", line 916, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/local/bin/sniff-probe-req", line 239, in run
    probe_request = self.parse(packet)
  File "/usr/local/bin/sniff-probe-req", line 273, in parse
    essid = packet.getlayer(Dot11ProbeReq).info.decode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfd in position 1: invalid start byte
@SkypLabs SkypLabs added the bug New bug label Apr 2, 2018
@SkypLabs SkypLabs added this to the v0.6.0 milestone Apr 2, 2018
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fix #4
4b48571 
Drop the packet if the ESSID is not a valid UTF-8 string.
@SkypLabs SkypLabs added this to the v0.8.0 milestone Oct 17, 2018
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SkypLabs commented Jan 9, 2019

This issue has been fixed and will be included in the next release.

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Drop the packet if the ESSID is not a valid UTF-8 string.
d9e4b75 
See #4.
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SkypLabs commented Mar 6, 2019 •
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Version 0.7.1 contains a patch addressing this issue.

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