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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-10-26 15:42:21 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-10-26 15:42:21 +0000
commit54c6f2c7c05d33859789bc3a1754805ee31c6edb (patch)
tree75405982126e2e139fd6f956802d0f3bd4263e4a
parent4cccceb0342c59441c6ae693612c557dbebcc03a (diff)
James Bursa found an ERRORBUFFFER overflow
-rw-r--r--CHANGES7
-rw-r--r--RELEASE-NOTES4
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 690eedb7e..e9b6c64c6 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@
Changelog
+Daniel (26 October)
+- James Bursa found out that curl_msnprintf() could write the trailing
+ zero-byte outside its given buffer size. This could happen if you generated
+ a very long error message as then libcurl would overwrite the ERRORBUFFER
+ with one byte. Using a non-existing very long local file:// name is one case
+ that could make this occur.
+
Daniel (24 October)
- David Hull filed bug report #829827. It identified a problem with -C - if
the full file already was downloaded and thus the server responded with a
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 299f87b30..f5d1cd081 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
This release includes the following bugfixes:
+ o a rare ERRORBUFFER single-byte overflow was fixed
o HTTP-resuming an already downloaded file works better
o builds better on Solaris 8+ with gcc
o --disable-eprt works now
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ advice from friends like these:
Neil Spring, Siddhartha Prakash Jain, Jon Turner, Vincent Bronner, Shard,
Jeremy Friesner, Florian Schoppmann, Neil Dunbar, Frank Ticheler, Lachlan
O'Dea, Dirk Manske, Domenico Andreoli, Gisle Vanem, Kimmo Kinnunen, Andrew
- Fuller, Georg Horn, Andrés García, Dylan Ellicott, Kevin Roth, David Hull
+ Fuller, Georg Horn, Andrés García, Dylan Ellicott, Kevin Roth, David Hull,
+ James Bursa
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)