From c00c1f6c999260e846a63104ec3757b233e180ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:40:10 +0000 Subject: Document 6.3.11 free() bug workaround. svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5428 --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b7d25e4a..dc42155e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ fetchmail 6.3.12 (released XXXX-XX-XX - not yet): unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated memory is handled in compiler and libc). + Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode. Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760. This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01. @@ -100,6 +101,8 @@ fetchmail 6.3.11 (released 2009-08-06): * Convert all non-printable characters in certificate Subject/Issuer Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields to ANSI-C hex escapes (\xnn, where nn are hex digits). + Note that this change introduces a regression, fixed in 6.3.12. + See the 6.3.12 documentation above for details and a workaround. # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name): * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu) -- cgit v1.2.3