[PATCH] notmuch: Fix off-by-one errors if a header is >200 characters long.
Carl Worth
cworth at cworth.org
Thu Jun 3 16:48:16 PDT 2010
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:45:41 +0100, dme at dme.org wrote:
> From: David Edmondson <dme at dme.org>
>
> If a single header is more than 200 characters long a set of 'off by
> one' errors cause memory corruption.
...
> This is the cause of my segmentation fault (or bus error) during
> `notmuch reply'. The patch is for the 0.3.1 branch, but I'd expect
> that it will apply cleanly to master.
Thanks for the fix, David.
In my testing I found that it was a header of *exactly* 200 bytes that
caused a problem. I added a message with such a header to the test suite
and verified (with valgrind) that the old code was problematic.
I've now pushed out both your fix and the new test case.
-Carl (happy to be hacking on notmuch again)
--
carl.d.worth at intel.com
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