Quoth Olaf Titz on Thu, Jul 08, 1999:
> The traditional dbm API deals with "datums" as binary blocks represented
^^^^^^
> as pointer/length pairs, not as C strings.
The plural of 'datum' is 'data'.
> The proper fix
> IMHO would be to change the dbm reading routine in exim to add the nul
> byte or otherwise ensure a cap on string length. (Note that this also
> has to do with avoiding crashes on malformed dbm data.)
I agree.
Vadik.
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