[EXIM] Exim 1.81 core dumps with exiwhat

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Author: Jasper Wallace
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To: exim-users
Subject: [EXIM] Exim 1.81 core dumps with exiwhat

One of our users is sending a 5Mb file to someone and it's crashing exim
when i run exiwhat whilst it's in the middle of delivering it.

>From the end of:

./bin/exim -d20 -M 0yUTS2-0003PM-00

[snip]
writing data block size=8326 timeout=300
LOG: 0 PROCESS
14031 1.81 delivering 0yUTS2-0003PM-00 to smtpmail.netlink.co.uk [194.88.140.3] (ian@???)
write incomplete (4056)

and in the logs:
13:13:15 queue run: process 14031 crashed with signal 139 while delivering 0yUTS2-0003PM-00

and from gdb:

(gdb) file ../bin/exim
Reading symbols from ../bin/exim...done.
(gdb) core core
Core was generated by `exim'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
#0 strlen () at strlen.s:15
strlen.s:15: No such file or directory.
Current language: auto; currently asm
(gdb) bt
#0 strlen () at strlen.s:15
#1 0x45ee68 in string_vformat ()
#2 0x45e3fc in string_sprintf ()
#3 0x476fd0 in check_response ()
#4 0x4781dc in smtp_deliver ()
#5 0x479524 in smtp_transport_entry ()
#6 0x4242e4 in deliver_message ()
#7 0x42d978 in main ()
(gdb)

# ./bin/exim -bV
Exim version 1.81 #8 built 24-Mar-1998 16:43:01
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1997
# uname -a
IRIX box 5.3 11091812 IP22 mips

Should we upgrade to 1.91?


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