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-rw-r--r--sink.c9
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 50099bca..934a6273 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ fetchmail 6.3.2 (to be released):
* Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option. Matthias Andree.
* fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version. Matthias Andree.
* fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice. Matthias Andree.
+* Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug was introduced
+ into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free random memory.
+ Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747. Fix: Matthias Andree.
fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
diff --git a/sink.c b/sink.c
index 532de189..765240ec 100644
--- a/sink.c
+++ b/sink.c
@@ -984,14 +984,19 @@ transient:
#ifdef EXPLICIT_BOUNCE_ON_BAD_ADDRESS
/*
* This should not be necessary, because the SMTP listener itself
- * should genrate a bounce for the bad address.
+ * should generate a bounce for the bad address.
+ *
+ * XXX FIXME 2006-01-19: is this comment true? I don't think
+ * it is, because the SMTP listener isn't required to accept bogus
+ * messages. There appears to be general SMTP<->MDA and
+ * responsibility confusion.
*/
if (*bad_addresses)
send_bouncemail(ctl, msg, XMIT_RCPTBAD,
"Some addresses were rejected by the MDA fetchmail forwards to.\r\n",
*bad_addresses, from_responses);
while (*bad_addresses)
- free(from_responses[*--bad_addresses]);
+ free(from_responses[--*bad_addresses]);
free(from_responses);
#endif /* EXPLICIT_BOUNCE_ON_BAD_ADDRESS */