dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson) (04/14/88)
Executing readnews or vnews that came with 2.11 dated 4/87 causes an
occasional core dump. It turns out that this happens when the
header line Newsgroups: exceeds 128 characters. The cause is in the
file called rfuncs.c, in the function called rightgroup(). The
local character array to which the Newsgroups: line is copied is
declared to be of size BUFLEN but the place it is copied from is of
size LBUFLEN. LBUFLEN is normally 1024 bytes. BUFLEN is either 128
or 256 bytes, depending upon the setting of the SMALL_ADDRESS_SPACE
configuration parameter. Eitherway, strcpy() is used to copy this
string. If the destination overflows, it causes trouble.
To correct this, change the BUFLEN to LBUFLEN in the declaration and
rebuild.
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Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc. A node for news.
Warren, NJ USA
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