First, thanks to Mr. Hood for writing MhonArc.
The following mail message in an archive causes mhonarc to fail to terminate
(runs forever (AKA an hour) with the CPU at 100%)
This occurs in MHonArc2.0a2 and in MHonArc2.1
This is perl, version 5.003 with EMBED built under linux at Jun 30 1996
22:53:17 + suidperl security patch
Linux loach.cichlid.com 2.0.32 #10 Wed Nov 19 20:23:31 PST 1997 i486
Put the following mail message into a file and run:
/usr/local/bin/mhonarc -folrefs -force -main -multipg -savemem -thread -time
/usr/local/mail/archive/busted
The output for 2.0a2 is:
root(_at_)loach:/tmp # /usr/local/bin/mhonarc -folrefs -force -main -multipg
-savemem -thread -time /usr/local/mail/archive/busted
Requiring content filter libraries ...
mhexternal.pl
mhtxthtml.pl
mhtxtplain.pl
mhtxtsetext.pl
Requiring charset filter libraries ...
iso8859.pl
Converting messages to .
Reading /usr/local/mail/archive/busted .
The output for 2.1 is:
root(_at_)loach:/tmp # /usr/local/bin/mhonarc -folrefs -force -main -multipg
-savemem -thread -time /usr/local/mail/archive/busted
Requiring content filter libraries ...
mhexternal.pl
mhtxtenrich.pl
mhtxthtml.pl
mhtxtplain.pl
mhtxtsetext.pl
Requiring charset filter libraries ...
iso8859.pl
Converting messages to .
Reading /usr/local/mail/archive/busted .
Here is the offending message. I've deleted everything except the header since
that is sufficient to cause the problem. You will probably have to delete the
'>' in
front of the From line that I assume sendmail will insert.
The checksum according to linux is:
root(_at_)loach:/tmp # sum /usr/local/mail/archive/busted
54197 1
If you can't duplicate the bug and the checksum doesn't match I'll put it up
for anonymous ftp.
Oddly, this does not fail under Solaris 2.5.1 (MHonArc2.1, same perl) but I get
another error:
danio:xxx > mhonarc -folrefs -force -main -multipg -savemem -thread -time
../busted
Requiring content filter libraries ...
mhexternal.pl
mhtxtenrich.pl
mhtxthtml.pl
mhtxtplain.pl
mhtxtsetext.pl
Requiring charset filter libraries ...
iso8859.pl
Converting messages to .
Reading ../busted .
Writing mail .
ERROR: Unable to create ./
danio:xxx > ls -ldag .
drwxrwx--- 2 aab devel 115 Nov 21 11:30 ./
danio:xxx > uname -a
SunOS danio 5.5.1 Generic_103640-09 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
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