On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:04:25AM +0200, Luigi Gangitano wrote: > Il giorno mer, 04/05/2005 alle 19.04 -0700, Steve Langasek ha scritto: > > > >Can you explain the impact of this segfault? > > > While generating the index file parsing directories if the month string is > > > longer than 3 char a strncpy call in index.c generates a not null-terminated > > > string that is subsequently passed to a strcat, resulting in a segfault. > > And when is the month string longer than 3 chars? > Took a while to contact the original patch submitter, sorry. Apparently > this bug is triggered only when a non default option in configuration > file is activated (LongUrl = yes). In such case, with some URLs (I'm > waiting upstream to provide examples), directories get the wrong date > string that triggers segmentation fault. > Surely it's a corner case. Yes, it does sound like a corner case. It's probably still worth fixing, but not something that I want to let a new upstream version in for. If you're in contact with the original patch submitter, does that mean you also have a pristine patch you could backport and upload to testing-proposed-updates? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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