inn 2.x dying, ARTpost() causes core

[Toni Andjelkovic]

Kai 'wusel' Siering wrote on Fri, Nov 19 1999 (14:49:36 +0100):
> I added something along
> 	if(!p || !q) {syslog(); buf[0]='\0'; return(buf);}
> in MaxLength() to make sure that beast won't bite my servers
> again.

thanks a lot for the fix, i looked deeper into the problem i posted
earlier today, and the same null pointer bit my server about 400 times
today --

Nov 20 03:31:18.150 + newsfeed01.univie.ac.at <8150d0$m01$1 at nnrp1.deja.com> 1462
 news-vie-pub.1012internet.at newsfeed03.univie.ac.at overview! INFLOW
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

(news at leech):[~/bin] # gdb /news/bin/innd -c ../spool/articles/core
[...]
This GDB was configured as "i486-delix-linux"...
Core was generated by `/news/bin/innd -p4 -o 200 -d -f'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Speicherzugriffsfehler.
[...]
#0  0x8066066 in MaxLength (p=Cannot access memory at address 0xbfffee50.
) at innd.c:136
136         i = strlen(p);
(gdb) print p
$3 = 0x0

i wonder how it's possible that inn ran for 160 days without
a problem and recently started dying every few minutes.

bye,
-- 
Toni Andjelkovic
toni at telecom.at