Re: lynx-dev 2.8.2rel.1 crash

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> 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
> 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.

That shouldn't play a role here - lines delimited with CR only are
not that uncommon.  Normally lynx deals with them fine.

    Klaus