Date: 03 May 2002 16:28:56 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Evolution-hackers] Patch for serious bug in 1.0.3] Message-ID: <1020457737.84489.3.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1020451327.331.10.camel@lerlaptop> References: <1020451327.331.10.camel@lerlaptop>
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On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 14:42, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
> FYI
Thanks! I have another patch pending testing. When I hear back on
that, I'll commit both at the same time.
Joe
> -----Forwarded Message-----
>
> From: Ettore Perazzoli <ettore@ximian.com>
> To: GNOME Announces <gnome-announce-list@gnome.org>, Evolution Hackers Mailing List <evolution-hackers@ximian.com>, Evolution Mailing List <evolution@ximian.com>
> Subject: [Evolution-hackers] Patch for serious bug in 1.0.3
> Date: 03 May 2002 14:21:10 -0400
>
> Hello,
>
> as reported on the mailing list yesterday, Evolution 1.0.3 has a serious
> bug that can make it eat all the memory on your system and then crash
> when downloading certain messages with invalid headers.
>
> The attached patch fixes the problem. It is strongly advised that users
> and distributions apply this patch to their builds ASAP, until a new
> tarball with the fix is released by the Evolution team. (For technical
> reasons, this cannot happen until next week.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Ettore
> ----
>
>
> Index: camel-mime-utils.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/evolution/camel/camel-mime-utils.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.146.6.6
> diff -u -r1.146.6.6 camel-mime-utils.c
> --- camel-mime-utils.c 12 Apr 2002 06:43:56 -0000 1.146.6.6
> +++ camel-mime-utils.c 3 May 2002 03:05:46 -0000
> @@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@
> } else {
> /* Fix for stupidly-broken-mailers that like to put '.''s in names unquoted */
> /* see bug #8147 */
> - if (*inptr && *inptr != '<') {
> + while (!pre && *inptr && *inptr != '<') {
> w(g_warning("Working around stupid mailer bug #5: unescaped characters in names"));
> name = g_string_append_c(name, *inptr++);
> pre = header_decode_word(&inptr);
> --
> Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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