Re: [Lynx-dev] 3xcrash: NULL dereferencing and buffer overflows

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Ulf Harnhammar wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 02:45:32AM +0200, Ulf Harnhammar wrote:
> > 1) NULL dereferencing crash with unexpected data from Gopher server
> >
> > I have attached a fake Gopher server, lynx-gopher-crash.pl, that
> > illustrates this issue. Run it, connect to it with lynx (lynx
> > gopher://fake.server), select the Search menu item, press s, search
> > for something.. notice how lynx crashes.
>
> It also crashes if you go directly to a URL like
> "gopher://fake.server/2a?b";, for example by selecting a link in an
> HTML document.

thanks (I guess the gopher code has been neglected since there aren't many 
gopher servers).

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