Re: imapd/ipop3d coredump in slackware 3.4

[peter () ATTIC VUURWERK NL (Peter van Dijk)]

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Peter van Dijk wrote:

> [attic bug report nr. 1]
>
> While fooling around a little with NIS/YP (didn't get it completely
> working...) I ran into a bug in the imapd and ipop3d that come with
> slackware 3.4 (if you install the pine package).
> Earlier slackware versions will problably NOT suffer from this bug,
> because they did not include shadowing.
>
> When fed an unknown username, imapd and ipop3d will dump core:
[snip]

I just got an answer from Patrick Volkerding [maintainer of Slackware].
He'll take the patch out and put a repaired package on the ftp site.

Peter.