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bug in glibc 2.3.2 gethostbyaddr_r


From: Jeffrey Stedfast
Subject: bug in glibc 2.3.2 gethostbyaddr_r
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:02:36 -0400

a number of Evolution users have complained that they cannot send mail.
Upon inspection, it was found that their hostname strings contained \n's
and/or were otherwise corrupted in odd ways.

when sending mail via SMTP, the client is supposed to send:

"EHLO %s\r\n" 

where %s is to be replaced with the machine's hostname, which we get by
calling gethostbyname_r() with the address retrieved from getsockname()
on the socket connected to the SMTP server.

the bug is that gethostbyaddr_r() returns success, but the resultant
struct hostent's h_name member seemingly points to some garbage string.
from all the reports I've seen, they all seem to be some random chunk of
text (sometimes including a newline) from /etc/hosts. the results have
sometimes been portions of comment blocks, multiple aliases, or some
combination thereof.

a workaround seems to be to have the users edit /etc/hosts and remove
all blank lines and all comment blocks from the file. once that is done,
gethostbyaddr_r() seems to work properly.

Jeff





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