Re: lynx-dev 2.8.2rel.1 crash

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote: 
>  
> > % lynx http://www.itso.iu.edu/alerts/ 
> >  
> > A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.8.2rel.1 
>  
> I can confirm this with 2.8.2dev.19 on SunOS 4.1.3_U1. I downloaded 

2.8.3dev.3 works fine (there was a usemap fix - again - a few patches ago).

> the file via wget. It appears to be a unix format file with embedded 
> tables having only Macintosh format EOLs (i.e. 0x0d without 0x0a). 
> For example, line 35 of the file has over 2500 characters, with 19 
> "^M" in the line (reading in binary mode with vim). I suspect a 
> buffer overflow, but I'll have to leave the investigation to more 
> knowledgeable members of the list. 
>                               Doug 
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> Doug Kaufman 
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