Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:22:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: test8-pre2 fs corruption? |
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > showed up here. Since it was only one list (BUGTRAQ) and I'm still at > > > > > > weird. currently my pine crashes on me when i close my bugtraq > > > folder. > > > > Ohh, so I'm not the only one having trouble reading bugtraq > > lately? ;) > > > > I'm getting that same problem on 2.4.0-test8-pre1 (+vmpatch), btw. > > > > And vanilla 2.4.0-t8-p1, ugh.
There is a known <cough> problem in pine. See below:
From: Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@PRIORIS.MINI.PW.EDU.PL> Subject: Re: UW c-client library vulnerability Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:41:17 +0200 Sender: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM> Message-ID: <20000902224117.A26538@satan> References: <20000901195322.A26175@verso.st.jyu.fi> Reply-To: Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@PRIORIS.MINI.PW.EDU.PL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Approved-BY: aleph1@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Delivered-To: bugtraq@lists.securityfocus.com Delivered-To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i X-To: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@ST.JYU.FI> To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM In-Reply-To: <20000901195322.A26175@verso.st.jyu.fi>; from juhtolv@ST.JYU.FI on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:53:22PM +0300
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:53:22PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > It seems, that c-client libraries by University of Washington have > some bug(s), that makes some programs that depend upon those libraries > go crazy. AFAIK affected programs include at least Pine (read "pain"), > ipop3d and IMAPD. And those programs and libraries are commonly used in > Unixes. I don't know, if any patch, fix, work-around etc. exist. > > * * * > > Problem was caused by my X-Keywords-header, that serves as so called spook line > (Hello, NSA! :-) ): > > X-Keywords: kettutytЖt, Sanna SillanpДД, IKL, Jammu Siltavuori, ryssД, somali, > lesbo, homo, lesbian, anarchism, nazi, communism, CIA, bomb, nuclear, Semtex, > satan, traitor, pedophile
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> I've been fighting this problem all day too. Pine blows up when you try > to save the INBOX back out with any changes. (I'm using fetchmail and > plain vanilla mail spool files.) It was driving me nuts. Thanks for > posting. (I saved a copy of my mailbox and will pick through it with a > fine-tooth comb later.)
pine crashes with "header size inconsistant" during saving mailbox if any message contains X-Keywords line split in 2 or more lines... Your post (maybe processed by MTA) contained 2-line X-Keywords so my pine crashed... and I could find why. (and had finally motivation to configure Mutt ;))
X-Keywords is processed in 2 functions: mail_filter() (in imap/src/c-client/mail.c) filters out X-Keywords line and seems to handle multi-line keywords correctly unix_parse() (in imap/src/osdep/unix/unix.c) probably doesn't handle multi-line keywords Different results (different header sizes) causes pine crash.
The same may apply to X-UID, X-Status and Status header (I haven't test, so I'm not sure).
imap uses the same c-client library, so the same condition may cause imap crash.
-- Jakub Bogusz http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~qboosh/
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