Re: [Exim] buffer overflow?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jens Steube
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] buffer overflow?
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Jens Steube wrote:

> i think i have found some type of buffer overflow in exim but i dont know
> 100% if it is an problem


> atomi@pioneer:~$ mail `perl -e 'print "A" x 2000'`


Just in time! I was going to release 3.30 this morning, but I will now
delay it while I fix this problem. Using "exim" instead of "mail" (to
ensure it is just an Exim problem) I get a spool format error, so
clearly there's a bug to be fixed.

Thanks for the report.
Philip

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