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IDA - Sendmail 5.61 - Null pointer dereference in savemail.c

#1365

From: Rob McMahon
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1989 16:13

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Sendmail 5.61 with the IDA 1.2.5 patches tries to dereference a null pointer
if PostMasterCopy is null.

RCS file: savemail.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -c -r1.1 -r1.2
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a08470	Sat Mar 25 16:11:16 1989
--- /tmp/,RCSt2a08470	Sat Mar 25 16:11:17 1989
***************
*** 406,412 ****
  	to = buf;
  	for (q = returnq; q != NULL; q = q->q_next) {
  	    if (q->q_alias == NULL)
! 		if (strcmp(q->q_paddr, PostMasterCopy) == 0)
  		    cc = q->q_paddr;
  		else {
  		    /* Not Postmaster; already on the To: line? */
--- 406,412 ----
  	to = buf;
  	for (q = returnq; q != NULL; q = q->q_next) {
  	    if (q->q_alias == NULL)
! 		if (PostMasterCopy && strcmp(q->q_paddr, PostMasterCopy) == 0)
  		    cc = q->q_paddr;
  		else {
  		    /* Not Postmaster; already on the To: line? */

Rob
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Subject: IDA - Sendmail 5.61 - Null pointer dereference in savemail.c
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Date: 25 Mar 89 16:13:37 GMT
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