On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Edoardo Spelta wrote:
>You said that there wa a bug in CircleMUD in the xnames procedures..
>a small buffer was used causing an overflow..
>what version of circle you were using ?
I was on bpl10 - bpl11. Ban code was partially rewritten in bpl12. You
had to have an xname over 20 characters long for it to crash.
>was that bug present in circle2.2 ?
It was worse in CircleMUD 2.2 because fscanf() doesn't have a length limit.
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