Bug 1738

Summary:	host dumps core on `host -l -t any mvhi.com ns.uu.net'
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	bind	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2	CC:	rvokal
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Description David Woodhouse 1999-03-24 15:18:21 UTC

devel2 /homes/dwmw2 $ host -l -t any mvhi.com ns.uu.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns.uu.net
Address: 137.39.1.3
Aliases:

Server failed: Premature end of data
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

If you can't reproduce it, let me know and I'll install the
sources and trace it further.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-24 16:58:59 UTC

quick fix is the following patch:
--- bind-8.2/src/bin/host/host.c.error	Wed Mar 24 11:43:19 1999
+++ bind-8.2/src/bin/host/host.c	Wed Mar 24 11:56:19 1999
@@ -1310,6 +1314,7 @@

 		amtToRead = len;
 		cp = buf.qb2;
+	        if (amtToRead > NS_PACKETSZ) amtToRead=NS_PACKETSZ;
 		while (amtToRead > 0 &&
 		       (numRead = read(sockFD, cp, amtToRead)) > 0) {
 			cp += numRead;

Comment 2 Preston Brown 1999-03-30 21:55:59 UTC

Bill, did you apply the quick and dirty fix?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-31 15:52:59 UTC

fixed in bind-8.2-6