From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:49:45 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs Message-Id: <20060908154945.GI28592@redhat.com> List-Id: References: <44FC193C.4080205@openvz.org> <44FFF1A0.2060907@openvz.org> <4501891D.5090607@sw.ru> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kirill Korotaev , Kirill Korotaev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Fernando Vazquez , "David S. Miller" , tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, xemul@openvz.org, devel@openvz.org On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:35:03AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > > > > I even checked the email myself and the only difference between "good" > > patches and mine is that mine has "format=flowed" in > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > > > It looks like some mailers replace TABs with spaces when format=flowed > > is specified. So are you sure that the problem is in mozilla? > > Hey, what do you know? Good call. I can actually just "S"ave the message > to a file, and it is a perfectly fine patch. But when I view it in my mail > reader, your "format=flowed" means that it _shows_ it as being corrupted > (ie word wrapping and missing spaces at the beginning of lines). > > Will apply, thanks. It would be better if your mailer didn't lie about the > format though (treating the text as "flowed" definitely isn't right, and > some mail gateways might actually find it meaningful, for all I know). I got bitten by this myself a while ago. Since then I added this hack to my .procmailrc :0fw | /usr/bin/perl -pe 's/^(Content-Type: .*)format=flowed/\1format=flawed/' now I see patches as they were intended.. Dave