Bug 7246
| Summary: | SEGV while sorting EMail with NMH | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Edward Kuns <eddie.kuns> |
| Component: | nmh | Assignee: | Florian La Roche <laroche> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-11-23 04:35:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Fixed in nmh-1.0.4-5. Thanks for the patch (and patience). |
I've found and fixed a bug in NMH that will cause a SEGV when sorting a folder that contains improperly formatted EMail. Any message that is missing the blank following ':' on the 'Subject: ' line can cause this SEGV. Try it! Take a folder with a bunch of EMail, pick one message at random and remove that blank. (i.e., "Subject:This is the subject") then sort by subject. $ sortm +foldername -textfield subject -limit 0 You will get a SEGV. A patch is below: [root@kilroy uip]# diff -au sortm.c sortm_new.c --- sortm.c Thu Dec 3 17:23:11 1998 +++ sortm_new.c Sun Nov 7 11:55:49 1999 @@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ else { if (isalnum(c)) *cp2++ = isupper(c) ? tolower(c) : c; + cp++; break; } } Adding that one line (the "cp++;" line) fixes the bug. I have notified the NMH maintainer (Richard Coleman) by EMail, but have not yet heard back. I Emailed him on 7 Nov. I thought I would post a bugfix here so at least RedHat could get the fix. This bug is really annoying, as there are people with this sort of malformatted EMail posting to the redhat lists!