UUCP 1.06 UUCICO BUG UNDER A3000's FOUND

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 23:05

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    Thanks to Marc Boucher for finding the bug!  All stack declarations of
    char cmnd[1]; should be turned into 'static char cmnd[256]'.  The problem
    turned out to be that the buffer was getting overrun because the person
    who originally wrote the code was using a sscanf("%s" , cmnd) ... and
    assumed the scanned string would be only one character long.

    Those of you with a compiler can simply recompile uucico.c with the
    appropriate changes.  Those of you without one can wait for the update
    to comp.binaries.amiga / comp.sources.amiga .

					    -Matt

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    Matthew Dillon	    dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
    891 Regal Rd.	    uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
    Berkeley, Ca. 94708
    USA

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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
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Subject: UUCP 1.06 UUCICO BUG UNDER A3000's FOUND
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Date: 21 Aug 90 23:05:50 GMT
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