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From: utzoohenry
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1981 21:59
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1981 21:59
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In the distributed V7 uucp, uucp/chkpth.c/rdpth() has three separate bugs: 1. Chaos and madness will ensue if there are more than 15 entries in the USERFILE, because the Upt table has been misdeclared so that its overflow check is against the wrong number. Fix: change the "15" in the declaration of Upt (about line 16) to "MAXUSERS". 2. Chaos and madness may ensue if there is no comma in the first field of a USERFILE line. Fix: change the line (about line 130) pc = u + strlen(u->us_lname); to pc = us->us_lname + strlen(u->us_lname); 3. Any transfer request from a site with an 8-character (or longer) system name will fail, giving PERMISSION (DENIED). Unlike all other uucp routines, rdpth is not truncating the system names it reads from USERFILE to 7 characters max length. Fix: after the line (about line 131): u->us_mname = pc; add: if (strlen(u->us_mname) > 7) u->us_mname[7] = '\0';
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