On Monday 24 January 2005 10:31, Xavier-Francois Roblot wrote: > So it is for a security issue that we cannot access the bug.
Supposedly. > On the > other hand, it is not difficult to have a look at the (very short) > corresponding patch: > > /usr/portage/mail-client/evolution/files/evolution-2-CAN-2005-0102.patch > > from which one can deduce what the bug was ;o) As you imply it doesn't work very well does it. Looks like a buffer overflow of some kind. The patch looks kind of unpleasantly hackish to me. The only advantage I can think of is that it doesn't need to know the limitations of the hardware or compiler. It just detects the condition that allows the overflow to take place. -- Ian. EOM -- [email protected] mailing list
