bug in inet_drv.c

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Thanks!

I have now written a ticket, and we'll try to fix the bug
in R10B-5.

Do you happen to have any simple Erlang code that will
provoke the bug? That would save us some time in writing
the test case.

/Bjorn

klacke@REDACTED writes:

> 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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> http://www.hyber.org                  -- everything is under control          
> 

-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB