[bug-mailutils] [Bug-mailfromd] Sometime wrongly padded base64 when doing message_header_encode?

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Christian,

I am sorry to be such a pain in (ab)using this mailing-list a lot ...

Quite on the contrary: thank you for discovering a bug in Mailutils!

I am observing some apparently wrongly padded base64 strings using the
function message_header_encode to prepare a subject header.

The bug is in libmailutils function filter_read. Please apply the
attached patch to Mailutils source, then reinstall libmailutils
(make -C libmailutils install), and recompile mailfromd.

Regards,
Sergey

[Christian Rohmann]

Post by Sergey Poznyakoff

I am sorry to be such a pain in (ab)using this mailing-list a lot ...

Quite on the contrary: thank you for discovering a bug in Mailutils!

Awesome, thanks for fixing it THAT quickly then.

Post by Sergey Poznyakoff

I am observing some apparently wrongly padded base64 strings using the
function message_header_encode to prepare a subject header.

The bug is in libmailutils function filter_read. Please apply the
attached patch to Mailutils source, then reinstall libmailutils
(make -C libmailutils install), and recompile mailfromd.

DONE, works fine now. Shall I open a bug with Debian to include this
patch in an update for the mailutils package then? Or will this come
from upstream soon anyways?



Regards

Christian