Re: [Exim] possible bug in exim-4.24

Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:

ok. thanx for this information.

So i guess we can expect a patch/new release.

> Andreas Gietl <a.gietl@???> wrote:
> >
> >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.