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List:       bugtraq
Subject:    Re: neat little napster bug
From:       Markus Kern <markus-kern () GMX ! NET>
Date:       2000-03-28 19:24:55
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Colten Edwards wrote:

> Seems that napster with it's closed source has a reason to be paranoid.
>
> The client napster.exe has a limit on the length of a line it will accept,
> somewhere around 191 chars. However the server will happily pass along
> any length you want upto possibly 32767 (unsigned short int). So, if you
> send a public msg or a possibly a privmsg to a channel/nick on the server,
> with a length longer than 191, it GPF's the client. This works with BETA5
> of the client and possibly earlier ones as well. I would ASSUME this could
> be developed into something else altogether. Way ta go napster, inc.

They seem to have fixed this at the server side.
When i tested it (04/28/00 20:10 GMT) only 180 characters were
passed through by the server. In both public and private chat.

Markus Kern

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