uuxqt did not remove workfiles

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From: Teus Hagen
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1985 17:29

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Due to a bug in MH.50 (address parse error) uuxqt caused a flow of mails around
the world yesterday.

A buffer of uuxqt was overwritten across its boundaries, and changed the
filenames of the uucp command and data files. So it did not
remove those working files. As a consequence of mails sent back, that
some address on the mail list was not longer valid, uucp of a remote
machine logged in, and restarted uuxqt, which found the not removed
working files, and decided to transport those again, again, again, again.

Ie change the order of the buffers, so there is less change of corrupting
the names. And increase the buffers of uuxqt!
(Or do array bound checking, malloc, etc....).

Apologize for the mail flooooooood.

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From: teus@ace.UUCP (Teus Hagen)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: uuxqt did not remove workfiles
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 12:29:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 12:29:11 1985
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