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Re: mutt/2163: Mutt crashes on malformed "From:" header (quoted-printable)



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2163; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: TAKAHASHI Tamotsu <ttakah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mutt Developers <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>, bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 
Subject: Re: mutt/2163: Mutt crashes on malformed "From:" header 
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:49:03 +0900

 * Sun Jan 15 2006 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
 > On 2006-01-14 21:15:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
 > >  This is due to the namequot patch.
 > 
 > I've attached a fixed version of this namequot patch. The problem
 > was that mutt_get_name could return a null pointer.
 
 Thanks! I didn't realize that safe_strdup() could return NULL.
 
 >    /* don't return NULL to avoid segfault when printing/comparing */
 > -  return ("");
 > +  tmp = safe_malloc (1);
 > +  *tmp = '\0';
 > +  return tmp;
 
 Great! That's what I intended.
 
 -- 
 tamo