Subject: bin/3028: Seg fault and bus error in /usr/bin/Mail
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: ZaP! <zap@richthofen.tooluser.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/14/1996 11:18:58
>Number: 3028
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Seg fault and bus error in /usr/bin/Mail
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 14 03:20:00 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: ZaP!
>Organization:
>Release: 1.2
>Environment:
System: NetBSD richthofen.tooluser.com 1.2 NetBSD 1.2 (RICHTHOFEN) #3: Sat Nov 23 10:46:39 PST 1996 root@richthofen.tooluser.com:/fokker/1.2/src/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RICHTHOFEN i386
>Description:
When attempting a reply with "r" using /usr/bin/Mail, a
segmentation fault occurs when there are more than 86 unique
line in the header. If there are 85 unique lines, a bus error
occurs. No error occurs with fewer lines.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a mail message with >86 unique header lines. eg,
include all header lines needed for valid mail and then
add a bunch of To: lines. The message that tipped this off
seemed to be sent from MS-exchange, which likes to send things
in this form:
To: FooBar <foo@bar.com>,
"'Diz Guy's'"
<disguise@camoflage.gov>,
To: ... etc
All of these lines seem to conform to RFC 822; 800 identical
To: lines do *not* cause the error, because the mailer
collapses them when a reply is attempted.
>Fix:
Since I'm just now pulling down that part of the source tree,
you'll prolly fix it before I do, but if I do come up with a
fix, I'll send it along... (Yeah, ok, sure, people should
use real mailing list exploders instead of Really Long Headers
but who wants to admit that Exchange broke a unix mailer? ;)
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: