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Bugs item #532545, was opened at 2002-03-20 08:22
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Jim Hague (bears)
Summary: Strange behaviour adding large newsgroup

Initial Comment:
I'm using noffle-1.0.1 on Linux.  Adding a newsgroup
with a large number of articles and then fetching mails
leads to strange behaviour which smells like a buffer
overflow:

root# noffle -S news.admin.net-abuse.email
Adding news.admin.net-abuse.email to fetch list in full
mode.
root# noffle -f
Fetch from 'news.cis.dfn.de'
Connected to 130.133.1.4:119
Updating groupinfo
No new articles in alt.sys.pdp10
No new articles in de.comm.uucp
Missing articles (news.admin.net-abuse.email
first=1460366 next=1443472)
Cutting number of overviews to 32767
Getting remote overviews 1587578-1620344 for group
news.admin.net-abuse.email
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Could not save group No such file or directory: &W
Could not save group No such file or directory: 'W
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Could not save group No such file or directory: 
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Could not save group No such file or directory: X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 
Could not save group No such file or directory: X
Could not save group No such file or directory: X
Could not save group No such file or directory: X
Could not save group No such file or directory: X
Could not save group No such file or directory:  X
Could not save group No such file or directory: !X
Could not save group No such file or directory: "X
Could not save group No such file or directory: #X
Could not save group No such file or directory: $X
Could not save group No such file or directory: %X
Could not save group No such file or directory: &X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 'X
Could not save group No such file or directory: (X
Could not save group No such file or directory: )X
Could not save group No such file or directory: *X
Could not save group No such file or directory: +X
Could not save group No such file or directory: ,X
Could not save group No such file or directory: -X
Could not save group No such file or directory: .X
Could not save group No such file or directory: /X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 0X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 1X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 2X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 3X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 4X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 5X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 6X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 7X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 8X
Could not save group No such file or directory: 9X
Could not save group No such file or directory: :X
Could not save group No such file or directory: ;X
Could not save group No such file or directory: <X
Could not save group No such file or directory: =X
Could not save group No such file or directory: >X
Could not save group No such file or directory: ?X
Could not save group No such file or directory: @X
Could not save group No such file or directory: AX
Could not save group No such file or directory: BX
Could not save group No such file or directory: CX
Could not save group No such file or directory: DX
Could not save group No such file or directory: EX
Could not save group No such file or directory: FX
Could not save group No such file or directory: GX
Could not save group No such file or directory: HX
Could not save group No such file or directory: IX
Could not save group No such file or directory: JX
Could not save group No such file or directory: KX
Could not save group No such file or directory: LX
Could not save group No such file or directory: MX
Could not save group No such file or directory: NX
Could not save group No such file or directory: OX
Could not save group No such file or directory: PX
Could not save group No such file or directory: QX
Could not save group No such file or directory: RX
Could not save group No such file or directory: SX
Could not save group No such file or directory: TX
Received signal 2 (SIGINT). Aborting.

(I hit ^C here.)

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2002-03-20 10:21

Message:
Logged In: NO 

Thanks for the patch.

> However, there does seem to be something going wrong. 
> Do you have plenty of free disc space?

I think I have enough.  There's enough on /, which is
relevant for the /tmp directory, /var for the noffle spool
and /usr for the installed binaries. But judge yourself:

root# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use%
Mounted on
/dev/hda5               132185     36354     89005  29% /
/dev/hda6               513147    443600     43042  92% /usr
/dev/hda7               513147     35489    451153   8% /var
/dev/hda8               513147    217757    268885  45%
/home/daemons
/dev/hda9              2035606   1840165     90217  96%
/home/localhost
/dev/hda12             4036617   3687372    140402  97%
/mnt/data
/dev/hdb1               241763    227703      1575 100%
/mnt/backup
root# rpm -qvl noffle
-rw-------     news     news         1776 Sep 16  2001
/etc/noffle.conf
-rwsr-xr-x     news     news       141676 Sep 16  2001
/usr/bin/noffle
drwxr-xr-x     root    wheel         1024 Sep 16  2001
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1
-rw-r--r--     root     root        17989 May  5  2000
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/COPYING
-rw-r--r--     root     root        26586 Jun 15  2001
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--     root     root         1546 May  5  2000
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/FAQ
-rw-r--r--     root     root        11609 Feb 28  2001
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/INSTALL
-rw-r--r--     root     root         5758 May 19  2000
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/INTERNALS
-rw-r--r--     root     root         7127 Sep 10  2000
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/NOTES
-rw-r--r--     root     root         2992 Feb 28  2001
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/README
-rw-r--r--     root     root         1776 May  5  2000
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/noffle.conf.example
-rw-r--r--     root     root          677 May  5  2000
/usr/doc/noffle-1.0.1/noffle.lsm
-rw-r--r--     root    wheel         2846 Sep 16  2001
/usr/man/man1/noffle.1.gz
-rw-r--r--     root    wheel         2479 Sep 16  2001
/usr/man/man5/noffle.conf.5.gz
drwxr-sr-x     news     news         1024 Sep 16  2001
/var/spool/noffle
drwxr-sr-x     news     news         1024 Sep 16  2001
/var/spool/noffle/data
drwxr-sr-x     news     news         1024 Sep 16  2001
/var/spool/noffle/lock
drwxr-sr-x     news     news         1024 Sep 16  2001
/var/spool/noffle/outgoing
drwxr-sr-x     news     news         1024 Sep 16  2001
/var/spool/noffle/overview
drwxr-sr-x     news     news         1024 Sep 16  2001
/var/spool/noffle/requested

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Comment By: Jim Hague (bears)
Date: 2002-03-20 09:29

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=184

Thanks for the report.

The garbage characters at the end of each error message
aren't the sign of a buffer overflow, but a coding error
when printing the error message. If you're building from
source, this patch should show the intended message:

diff -c -r1.3.2.1 group.c
*** group.c	17 Jul 2000 13:40:10 -0000	1.3.2.1
--- group.c	20 Mar 2002 17:28:48 -0000
***************
*** 146,152 ****
      val.dptr = buf;
      val.dsize = bufLen;
      if ( gdbm_store( grp.dbf, key, val, GDBM_REPLACE ) != 0 )
!         Log_err( "Could not save group %s: %s", errMsg() );
      free( buf );
  }

--- 146,152 ----
      val.dptr = buf;
      val.dsize = bufLen;
      if ( gdbm_store( grp.dbf, key, val, GDBM_REPLACE ) != 0 )
!         Log_err( "Could not save group %s: %s", grp.name,
errMsg() );
      free( buf );
  }

However, there does seem to be something going wrong. Do you
have plenty of free disc space?

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