Re: buffer overflow with greek characters, NIX

[KF <dotslash () snosoft com>]

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.