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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Email address matching in KMReaderWin::strToHtml()
From:       Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-04-19 20:01:47
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On Friday 19 April 2002 20:24, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
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> We should be careful with completely removing the limit because this
> could maybe be exploited somehow.
<snip>

How? The only thing would be buffer overflows, but they can be easily avoided 
with a little care. Are you thinking about the XFree bug with long lines that 
crashes KMail with long address lists?

> What about raising the limit to 4096 characters? This should be more
> than enough.

I can live with it, as long as it's properly documented in the source.

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
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