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-rw-r--r--epan/tvbuff_subset.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/epan/tvbuff_subset.c b/epan/tvbuff_subset.c
index f65b612842..b5034b3f12 100644
--- a/epan/tvbuff_subset.c
+++ b/epan/tvbuff_subset.c
@@ -226,7 +226,12 @@ tvb_new_subset_remaining(tvbuff_t *backing, const gint backing_offset)
tvbuff_t *
tvb_new_proxy(tvbuff_t *backing)
{
- tvbuff_t *tvb = tvb_new_with_subset(backing, backing->reported_length, 0, backing->length);
+ tvbuff_t *tvb;
+
+ if (backing)
+ tvb = tvb_new_with_subset(backing, backing->reported_length, 0, backing->length);
+ else
+ tvb = tvb_new_real_data(NULL, 0, 0);
tvb->ds_tvb = tvb;