> sent to a port it is listening on. Further testing showed that sending a
> certain amount of data to the port the Remote Management Service (RMS)
> plugin listens on it too would cause Licq to crash or lock up. The
> amount of data needed to be sent to crash Licq may vary from system to
> system. On the Red Hat linux 7.0 system I used 16707 or more bytes sent
> to the port Licq was listening on was enough to crash it. Sending around
> 12000 or more characters to the RMS plugin port was enough to crash Licq
The actual problem is due to line parsing code which uses a fixed length
(dynamically allocated) buffer of 1024 bytes. Any string of characters
longer then 1024 without a newline will crash the server. This has been
fixed in the latest CVS tree which will be released along with Licq 1.0.3
very soon.
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Graham Roff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Waterloo ICQ #2127503
Computer Engineering Canada
Nolites tes bastardes carborundorum
