On Monday 08 January 2007 18:19, Rick Macdougall wrote:
> Joshua Megerman wrote:
> > In vchkpw, you can statically compile in a list of IP addresses that are
> > to be treated as webmail connections for auth purposes. However, the
> > traversal of the list do es a loop based on dividing the size of the
> > entire array by the size of the first element in the array. Since IP
> > addresses can be anywhere from 8 characters (A.B.C.D\0) to 16 characters
> > (AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD\0), this makes it likely that any added addresses will
> > cause some sort of segfault, especially if several large (character-wise)
> > addresses are added (since the default, "127.0.0.1" is only 10
> > characters). This patch fixes it by NULL-terminating the list of
> > strings, and using that fact for bounds-checking in the for loop...
> >
> > This bug has been present since at least 5.4.13, but my guess is that so
> > few people use this feature (I didn't even know about it until I was
> > walking the code earlier today checking on the connection types!) that
> > it's not likely to be hit very often. Still, it's a bug, and so this
> > patch... :) Also uploaded to SourceForge as bug #1630944.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I believe that's my patch or patch request at any rate. I'm not sure if
> I or Tom C. wrote the code for that.
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
My turn to say oops - As Tom pointed out in response to my sourceforge
posting, I was mistaking the sizeof the pointer for the sizeof the string.
I've closed the SF bug as invalid, please discard the patch (not that it
doesn't work, but the original code is perfectly valid).
josh
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