Bug 1384 – kmail crashes, buffer overflow?

Bug 1384 - kmail crashes, buffer overflow?

Summary:	kmail crashes, buffer overflow?

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Preston Brown
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Reported:	1999-03-01 06:31 EST by Joseph Malicki
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-03-31 15:09:08 EST
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Description Joseph Malicki 1999-03-01 06:31:33 EST

Sorry about =putting this in XFree86, but the kde components
don't yet have entries.  In RawHide 1.2.8 and 1.2.9, the
kmail with the updated kdenetwork package crashes every time
I get the first mail message from a certain account.  It
prints a lot of garbage to the screen consistent with a
buffer overflow.  Earlier kmail's seemed to work, but I
probably didn't have that message yet.  This could be a
security hole if root ever tries to run kmail.... I will
contact the maintainers shortly...

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 1999-03-18 18:42:59 EST

assigned to pbrown

Comment 2 Preston Brown 1999-03-31 15:09:59 EST

without further input on what sort of message is crashing the program,
I can't provide any help or solution.  Please reopen the bug if you
are able to provide further, more specific information.

Comment 3 Joseph Malicki 1999-11-21 03:18:59 EST

It's taken quite a while... but I've figured out what causes kmail to crash.. it
is STILL a problem after all this time... it's a long subject line (I THINK > 80
chars, but not positive)... every once in a while I'll get a thread with a
really long subject line and kmail crashes... I've stepped through the source,
and am still perplexed as to why this is happening.....

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