Re: [Exim] possible bug in exim-4.24

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Autor: Tony Finch
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To: a.gietl
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] possible bug in exim-4.24
Andreas Gietl <a.gietl@???> wrote:
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>that fixes it, but i'm sure this only cures the symptoms, not the cause.


No, the problem is that the code assumes that errno!=ERANGE when strtol()
succeeds, which is not guaranteed because errno is not altered when
strtol succeeds so a previous error may trigger the error handling code.
I analysed this bug and reported it to Philip last week.

Tony.
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