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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: BUG: Kmail client DoS]
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-04 4:15:41
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Hurray,

I forward your mail to the Bugtraq(?) guy so they know it is 
a false alarm (again). 

I was orignally concerned when I saw this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:kazak%40mail.axon.ru&hl=en&lr=lang_en&selm=bugtraq/02022623192100.01057%40localhost.localdomain&rnum=1


Don.

On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:58, Ladislav Strojil wrote:
> Dne pá 1. bøezen 2002 14:54 Michael Häckel napsal(a):
> > Am Freitag, 1. März 2002 14:12 schrieb Marc Mutz:
> > > Do you mean 2.2_BRANCH? Obvioudly not, since the
> > > original reporter said he was using that (or so I
> > > understood).
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I can't find the relevant commit. But there
> > > was a buffer overflow IIRC where a 10K or so buffer
> > > was used to hold a line.
> > 
> > I am currently using KMail 1.3.2 from KDE 2.2.2 and it
> > is displayed nicely. Nothing does crash or freeze.
> > 
> > I guess, this is the well known font anti aliasing bug
> > in the X-Server. Does disabling this feature help?
> 
> Yes, I tried disabling AA and KMail does not freeze
> anymore. I am using XFree4.2 (self-compiled), so this bug
> has apparently not been fixed yet.
> 
> So it's exactly as I suspected. KMail is perfect, errors
> are always elsewhere. :-))))) I just love KMail.
> 
> Thanks for you time and effords.
> 
> Lada

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