Re: Invalid data in remote protocol can cause buffer overflow

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> I think I've lost momentum on this for now and I
already have plenty of
> other things to work on, so feel free.

I think I might have nailed this one - I think the problem
is that
"runtest" outputs "Running
../bin/xapian-progsrv under valgrind" to
stdout before running xapian-progsrv under valgrind, and
that gets
read by the client when it is expecting the opening banner
from the
remote server.  Just checking that out now...

Cheers,
    Olly

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:42:47PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Olly Betts
wrote:
> > I think I've lost momentum on this for now and I
already have plenty of
> > other things to work on, so feel free.
> 
> I think I might have nailed this one - I think the
problem is that
> "runtest" outputs "Running
../bin/xapian-progsrv under valgrind" to
> stdout before running xapian-progsrv under valgrind,
and that gets
> read by the client when it is expecting the opening
banner from the
> remote server.  Just checking that out now...

No, that wasn't it (though it can't have been helping, so
I've fixed
it anyway).

I've tried a build with debug logging on, and I don't get a
log file
from xapian-progsrv, which suggests it's failing to start.

Cheers,
    Olly

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