2048 characters is sent to the qpopper process, a denial of service
condition will occur"
Actually, this is caused by an incorrect assumption. qpopper uses
the same buffer over and over when communicating. However, it never
makes sure that the buffer has been updated if something goes wrong.
Therefore, one can try to add to this buffer over and over; thus,
consuming available resources.
Solution, do not follow unofficial patch available in bugtraq mailing
list since losing pointer references is not an option. Otherwise,
change the way both getline and tgetline functions work. Just so
that they resemble read(2) return codes as follows:
1) if < 0 problem
2) if >= 0 user typed something (enter without anything else is
something)
First patch sent by Isao SEKI <iseki@gongon.com>
PR: 36326
Prompted by: Alessandro de Manzano <ale@unixmania.net>,
Isao SEKI <iseki@gongon.com>
Reviewed by: eivind,
Alessandro de Manzano <ale@unixmania.net>,
David Rufino <dr@soniq.net>,
Isao SEKI <iseki@gongon.com>
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