Re: buffer overflow with greek characters, NIX
From: KF (dotslash@snosoft.com)Date: 04/18/02
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:16:24 -0400 From: KF <dotslash@snosoft.com> To: David H <david@uptime.at>
Heres the info on the XFree and KDE issues for those of you concerned...
(Mandrake users less than 8.1 this is YOU I believe)
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/215726
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/209450
http://online.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=82&start=2002-04-15&end=2002-04-21&mid=209547&threads=1
^----- Please see this thread for info on KDE protocol handling...
-KF
David H wrote:
> KF wrote:
>
>> Nah the unix guy is suffering from a bug in X and or in the protocol
>> handling of KDE in general including Konqueror / kmail / file dialog
>> boxes / etc... Long title bars are one way of triggering this. I
>> have posted a few times on this... xterm --title b0fhere may crash
>> your box if you have the bug in X. If its a bug in Konqueror / KDE
>> protocols try making an html file with AAAAAAAA... a few thousand
>> times as the <title>AAA....</title> and open it.
>>
>> -KF
>
>
> I just wanted to correct the good man. Jonqueror itself does not
> handle any protocols. The HTML rendering engine and any part of the
> I/O input subsystem are within the so called IOSlaves. Therefore it is
> wrong to blame the application should there be faults. If there are
> errors in protocol handling, please submit those bugs to bugs.kde.org
> if you haven`t allready or send them directly to me "darian@kde.org"
> and I shall add them to the database for you (one time offer only!).
>
> Please realise, that KDE hasa modular setup where mostr services are
> provided toi applications on a much lower level, they are not
> statically built into the application`s code.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
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