Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:10:08AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
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>> Date: Sat,  8 Oct 2005 09:23:11 +0200
>> Source: lynx
>> Binary: lynx
>> Architecture: source powerpc
>> Version: 2.8.5-2sarge1
>> Distribution: stable-security
>> Urgency: high
>> Maintainer: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Changed-By: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Description:=20
>>  lynx       - Text-mode WWW Browser
>> Changes:=20
>>  lynx (2.8.5-2sarge1) stable-security; urgency=3Dhigh
>>  .
>>    * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team
>>    * Applied patch by Ulf H=E4rnhammar to fix buffer overflow that can le=
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>>      to arbitrary code execution [WWW/Library/Implementation/HTMIME.c,
>>      CAN-2005-3120]

> I wrote the patch.  Ulf reported the problem.

hmm - I was being too optimistic.  Ulf's original patch, which I see in
the diff's changes the behavior from a core dump to truncating the data
(and giving the wrong result).  I'd rather that the code work than simply
replace one bug with another.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net


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