bug in inet_drv.c

[klacke@REDACTED]

Howdy, 

I resent an old bug report of mine a couple
of months ago but I'm not sure what happened to it.

It's a pretty serious bug and I recommend everone running
erlang systems that use sockets with {packet, http}   
(this includes all yaws systems) to apply the patch. 
Otherwise it's easy to bring down the entire erlang node 
just by sending broken HTTP requests at it.

Anyway, the bug is old and originally reported at:

http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200302/msg00493.html

and a correct description at

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.patches/3


The patch is:

--- inet_drv.c.orig     2005-04-08 17:33:37.003071900 +0200
+++ inet_drv.c  2005-04-08 17:33:43.279602316 +0200
@@ -1980,7 +1980,7 @@
     int c;
     /* start-line = Request-Line | Status-Line */
     if (n == 0)
-      return 0;
+      return -1;
     h = 0;
     meth_ptr = ptr;
     while (n && !is_tspecial((unsigned char)*ptr)) {



/klacke


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