Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2201] Exim handles BDAT data incorrectly…

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2201] Exim handles BDAT data incorrectly and leads to crash
On 2017-12-13 admin@??? wrote:
> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2201


> --- Comment #12 from Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@???> ---
> d21bf20 fixes the reproducer I created for the report with the re-open of the
> bug. It turned out to actually be a different issue, in flushing input between
> detecting an overlong header line and accepting further SMTP commands. The
> flush
> is required in its own right, but has the side-effect of dropping us out of
> BDAT-handling mode.


Hello,

could you please spell out what the actual effects of the issue fixed by
this patch are? Another security vulnarability, data loss, none of the
above?

Thanks, cu Andreas

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