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Date:      Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:01:06 +0200 (EET)
From:      "Kari E. Hurtta" <Kari.Hurtta@ozone.fmi.fi>
To:        toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day)
Cc:        hurtta+elm@ozone.fmi.fi, yk@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [BUG ?] Segment Violation signal!
Message-ID:  <199812041401.QAA08065@ozone.fmi.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199812041356.HAA18428@home.dragondata.com> from Kevin Day at "Dec 4, 1998 07:56:34 am"

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Kevin Day:
> > Kevin Day:
> > > 
> > > To add to this... Just receiving your message crashed my elm. :)
> > 
> > Decoding on encoding someway corrupt memory:
> > 
> 
> I just received this response from the elm author:
> 
> 
> 
> Subject: Re: Elm crash bug
> To: toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day)
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:51:18 -0500 (EST)
> Reply-To: syd@myxa.com
> 
> well known, elm uses fixed length buffers, that is why we wanted a
> rewrite of the base elm code, which won't happen, this bug will probably
> never be fixed.

That is readon, why I have on my ME+ code bound checking
when writing buffers. But there of course may be some
places which I have missed... (just replacing strcpy:s,
strcat:s and sprintf:s is not enough.)


Note that that crash did not occured on official elm,
but on my ME+ version. In officail version do not even
have that mime decoding code...

/ Kari Hurtta

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