Re: [exim] Re: [exim-dev] buffer overflow?

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: [exim-dev] buffer overflow?
At 9:51 am +0000 2005/03/14, Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Mark Morley wrote:
>
>> 2005-03-12 02:14:20 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (input
>> sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from
>> H=[218.109.116.199] input="# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.19.2.3 2002/06/30
>> 17:57:17 des Exp $\n#\nwheel:*:0:root,admin\ndaemon:*:1:daemon\n.....
>>
>> I see maybe 25 of these a day. Always related to a sync error, usually from
>> different IPs, always the group file never anything else, and on multiple
>> machines. Only started with 4.50 and I've absolutely no doubt that this is
>> NOT the result of cracked server.
>
>I am guessing that I've introduced a bug when adding the "input="
>feature, and that it is printing out data from the wrong address, or the
>buffer hasn't been properly initialized, or something like that. I'll
>take a look at the code in due course.


has it got to do with the fix from June last year:

Philip [BUG], Was: [Exim] synchronization error (next input sent too
soon) log error?

Giuliano