On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 14:01:45 +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote:

> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package dspam
> 
> [Sorry Jonathan for the duplicate]
> 
> Current dspam is affected by a corruption of message headers when
> releasing from quarantine. This has for effect that mails are lost when
> releasing from quarantine. A patch has been commited upstream but there
> is some concern about buffer overflow. Hence, although the patch was
> initially backported in sid, it was subsequently removed. See [1] for
> the previous discussion.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698701#32
> 
> Today I've been working on a patch to solve the problem without security
> concern. The patch is not pretty, I know it, but it should do its job.
> 
> The patch makes sure recipient points to an area of size at least 256
> bytes. It wasn't always the case initially. The list of place where
> recipient pointer is set is:
> 
> % egrep -RIn "recipient[^s]*=" src 
> src/dspam.c:503:        ATX->recipient = CTX->username;
> src/dspam.c:948:    ATX->recipient=args;
> src/dspam.c:1675:      ATX->recipient = node_rcpt->ptr;
> src/dspam.c:1683:      ATX->recipient = node_nt->ptr;
> src/dspam.c:1694:      ATX->recipient = mailbox;
> 
> mailbox and args are of respective size 256 and 1024 bytes.
> node_rcpt->ptr and node_nt->ptr on the other hand are exactly the size
> of the string. They are allocated when calling nt_add (which call
> nt_node_create).
> 
> Thus, the approach is to copy node_rcpt->ptr and node_nt->ptr into an
> array of size 256 as well and this size can be used to limit the strlcpy
> when copying CTX->username to ATX->recipient. I don't like to hardcode
> the size but didn't find anything better for now. I'll forward upstream
> and let him find a long term solution.
> 
> See attached debdiff for details.
> 
That debdiff is for 3.10.2 in sid.  Do you have one for 3.10.1?

Thanks,
Julien

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