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Article #3295

Bug in IDA sendmail when using 'p' (M_FROMPATH) flag for UUCP

#3295
From: Per Hedeland
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 11:25
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Version: sendmail 5.61 + IDA 1.2.8

When using the 'p' flag for the UUCP mailer in order to get the value of $k
(uucp name) prepended to the envelope sender address, this won't be done if $k
happens to be an initial substring of the existing sender address, e.g. if your
uucp name is 'erix' and the sender address is 'erix-u.ericsson.se!user'. (BTW
this very same bug was once present in the news software, fixed back at 2.10.2
or somesuch, I believe...:-)

--Per Hedeland
per@erix.ericsson.se   or  ...{uunet,mcvax}!erix.ericsson.se!per

Fix:

*** /usr/src/usr.lib/sendmail.5.61.ida/src/deliver.c.orig	Thu Jan 26 16:50:57 1989
--- /usr/src/usr.lib/sendmail.5.61.ida/src/deliver.c	Tue Apr  4 12:07:58 1989
***************
*** 1166,1174 ****
  	/* construct path through us if needed */
  	if (bitnset(M_FROMPATH, m->m_flags)) {
  		char myname[MAXLINE];
  
  		expand("\001k", myname, &myname[sizeof myname - 1], CurEnv);
! 		if (index(oldg, '!') == NULL
  		    || strncmp(oldg, myname, strlen(myname)) != 0) {
  			sprintf(newg, "%s!%s", myname, oldg);
  			define('g', newg, CurEnv);
--- 1166,1176 ----
  	/* construct path through us if needed */
  	if (bitnset(M_FROMPATH, m->m_flags)) {
  		char myname[MAXLINE];
+ 		char *bang;
  
  		expand("\001k", myname, &myname[sizeof myname - 1], CurEnv);
! 		if ((bang = index(oldg, '!')) == NULL
! 		    || strlen(myname) != bang - oldg
  		    || strncmp(oldg, myname, strlen(myname)) != 0) {
  			sprintf(newg, "%s!%s", myname, oldg);
  			define('g', newg, CurEnv);
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Message-ID: <1962@erix.ericsson.se>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!ericom!erix.ericsson.se!per

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From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Bug in IDA sendmail when using 'p' (M_FROMPATH) flag for UUCP
Message-ID: <1962@erix.ericsson.se>
Date: 4 Apr 89 11:25:45 GMT
Reply-To: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Organization: Ellemtel Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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