Re: buffer overflow with greek characters, NIX

From: KF (dotslashat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 10:16:24 PDT

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    Heres the info on the XFree and KDE issues for those of you concerned... 
    (Mandrake users less than 8.1 this is YOU I believe)
    
    http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/215726
    http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/209450
    
    http://online.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=82&start=2002-04-15&end=2002-04-21&mid=209547&threads=1
    ^----- Please see this thread for info on KDE protocol handling...
    
    -KF
    
    David H wrote:
    
    > KF wrote:
    >
    >> Nah the unix guy is suffering from a bug in X and or in the protocol 
    >> handling of KDE in general including Konqueror  / kmail / file dialog 
    >> boxes / etc...  Long title bars are one way of triggering this. I 
    >> have posted a few times on this... xterm --title b0fhere may crash 
    >> your box if you have the bug in X. If its a bug in Konqueror / KDE 
    >> protocols try making an html file with AAAAAAAA... a few thousand 
    >> times as the <title>AAA....</title> and open it.
    >>
    >> -KF
    >
    >
    > I just wanted to correct the good man. Jonqueror itself does not 
    > handle any protocols. The HTML rendering engine and any part of the 
    > I/O input subsystem are within the so called IOSlaves. Therefore it is 
    > wrong to blame the application should there be faults. If there are 
    > errors in protocol handling, please submit those bugs to bugs.kde.org 
    > if you haven`t allready or send them directly to me "darianat_private" 
    > and I shall add them to the database for you (one time offer only!).
    >
    > Please realise, that KDE hasa modular setup where mostr services are 
    > provided toi applications on a much lower level, they are not 
    > statically built into the application`s code.
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    >
    >
    



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