Bug#682803: trn4: Segfault whilst applying killfile to article with long header line

2012-08-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:11:07PM +0100, Nick Leverton wrote: > This now reminds me of some investigations I did a few years back into a > similar issue in inn's nntpget. I found that a small number of clients > did not trim References headers when they grew past 1024 bytes, or perhaps > trimmed

Bug#682803: trn4: Segfault whilst applying killfile to article with long header line

2012-08-08 Thread Nick Leverton
retitle 682803 trn4: Segfault whilst applying killfile to article with long header line tag 682803 +patch thanks This now reminds me of some investigations I did a few years back into a similar issue in inn's nntpget. I found that a small number of clients did not trim References headers when th

Bug#682803: trn4: Segfault whilst applying killfile to article with long header line

2012-08-01 Thread Nick Leverton
Package: trn4 Version: 4.0-test77-5 Followup-For: Bug #682803 I should have investigated the article reported in the backtrace. It has a References header of 1034 characters, and we are trying (at artsrch.c line 400) to sprintf that into good old 'buf' which is only 1024 bytes long. I fear this m