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Suggested removal: xwhois [was: Bug#507944: xwhois: segfaults on start in get_servers()]



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Steve Cotton <steve0001@s.cotton.clara.co.uk> (06/12/2008):
> xwhois.h:
>     #define BUFSIZE 1024
> 
>     struct serverent {
>       char *name;
>       char *comment;
>     } servers[256];
> 
> 
> get_servers():
>       /*
>        * Set all struct members to NULL.
>        */
> 
>       for (i=0 ; i < BUFSIZE ; i++)
>         {
>           servers[i].name = servers[i].comment = NULL;
>         }
> 
> After setting BUFSIZE to 256, the app started OK.
> 
> But pressing "Scan" locked the app up.  I fired up Wireshark, 90
> seconds later it's still sending out SYN packets to servers that
> don't respond.  After a couple of minutes, it displayed the
> results.  They're mostly along the lines of "server did not
> respond", "query format not supported", "this server only has the
> .FOO and .BAR TLDs".
> 
> Popcon is 63 installs, 14 votes, and it has a dependency on GTK-1.2.
> Personally, I think this isn't one to fix.

Agreed, looks like a candidate for removal from testing (-release@ Cc'd
for that), and maybe even from unstable (-qa@ Cc'd for that).

Mraw,
KiBi.

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