Re: [Exim] buffer overflow?

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Author: Rob B
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To: Jens Steube
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] buffer overflow?
Hi Jens,

Just wondering (as a Debian user), have you advised the Debian package
maintainer of this problem and fix? The maintainer is Mark Baker
(mbaker@???)

Cheers,
Rob

At 18:38 18/06/2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
>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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>Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
>ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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