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1 THIS IS AN OVERVIEW OVER THE MORE SEVERE BUGS THAT ANNOY LEAFNODE USERS
2
3 This document is by no means complete. Check NEWS and ChangeLog for the
4 full round-up on bugs fixed in leafnode - particularly, not all security
5 bugs are listed here!
6
7 Legend:
8 TRIGG: means trigger
9 NEW IN: describes the version when the bug was introduced. "Old" means
10 before 1.9.20.
11 RATE: estimates how severe the bug is.
12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
13 BUG: - connection hang while fetching header
14 CVE: 2005-1911
15 RATE: MODERATE
16 FIXED: 1.11.3
17 CREDIT: Adam Funk
18
19 BUG: - connection abort while article is read causes fetchnews crash
20 CVE: 2005-1453
21 RATE: MODERATE
22 NEW IN: 1.9.52
23 FIXED: 1.11.2
24
25 BUG: - connection abort while header is read causes fetchnews crash
26 CVE: 2005-1453
27 RATE: MODERATE
28 NEW IN: 1.9.48
29 FIXED: 1.11.2
30
31 BUG: - fetchnews does not support IPv6
32 RATE: MINOR
33 FIXED: 1.11.0
34
35 BUG: - cannot use # in passwords
36 RATE: MINOR
37 FIXED: 1.11.0
38
39 BUG: - empty groups expire prematurely
40 RATE: MODERATE
41 FIXED: 1.10.8
42 CREDIT: Brian Sammon
43
44 BUG: - runtime failure on old systems with broken snprintf
45 RATE: CRITICAL
46 FIXED: 1.10.7
47 CREDIT: Michael Bäuerle
48
49 BUG: - failing server with noactive still requests active update
50 RATE: MODERATE
51 FIXED: 1.10.6
52 CREDIT: Brian Sammon (analysis and patch)
53
54 BUG: - duplicates in delaybody mode
55 RATE: MINOR
56 TRIGG: classic delaybody mode (delaybody_in_situ is unset)
57 NEW IN: 1.9.50
58 FIXED: 1.10.5
59 CREDIT: Til Schubbe
60
61 BUG: - lots of relinks, texpire expires too many articles
62 RATE: CRITICAL
63 TRIGG: running another leafnode program (except leafnode itself)
64 while texpire is running
65 NEW IN: 1.9.54
66 FIXED: 1.10.4
67 CREDIT: Rein Klazes
68
69 BUG: - .overview.XXXXXX files prevent removal of empty group
70 directories
71 RATE: MINOR
72 FIXED: 1.10.2
73 CREDIT: Johannes Berg
74
75 BUG: - Xref information missing from overview
76 RATE: MINOR
77 FIXED: 1.10.1
78 NEW IN: 1.9.50
79 CREDIT: "SINNER" (news.software.readers), Jörg Lüders
80
81 BUG: - texpire segfaults
82 RATE: MODERATE
83 TRIGG: expiring a group that has been deleted from the groupinfo but is
84 present on disk
85 premature abort with mids files left in the spool that texpire
86 has written
87 FIXED: 1.10.0
88 NEW IN: 1.9.52
89 CREDIT: Johannes Berg
90
91 BUG: - fetchnews keeps fetching the full newsgroups list
92 RATE: MODERATE
93 TRIGG: upstream server on a non-standard port
94 FIXED: 1.9.52
95 CREDIT: Cory C. Albrecht, Joshua Crawford
96
97 BUG: - archived groups show errors in access
98 RATE: MODERATE
99 FIXED: 1.9.53
100
101 BUG: - stale .overview and groupinfo files
102 RATE: MODERATE
103 TRIGG: stdout disconnected prematurely, or groupexpire -1
104 FIXED: 1.9.43
105 CREDIT: Sytse van Slooten
106
107 BUG: - fetchnews XOVER handling (after disconnect) is extremely slow
108 RATE: MINOR
109 NEW IN: 1.9.33
110 FIXED: 1.9.43
111 CREDIT: Rein Klazes (for debugging)
112
113 BUG: - fetchnews hangs
114 RATE: CRITICAL, SECURITY (remote denial of service)
115 TRIGG: missing mandatory header
116 NEW IN: old
117 FIXED: 1.9.42
118 CREDIT: Joshua Crawford (for the first bug report to point to the bug)
119
120 BUG: - fetchnews does not stop fetching a group I unsubscribed from
121 RATE: MODERATE
122 TRIGG: delaybody=1 before 1.9.32, unconditional since 1.9.33
123 NEW IN: old
124 FIXED: 1.9.41
125 CREDIT: Andreas Muck, Gerry Doris
126
127 BUG: - cascaded leafnode installations lose own posts to pseudogroups
128 RATE: CRITICAL
129 NEW IN: old
130 FIXED: 1.9.39
131 CREDIT: Kyler Laird
132
133 BUG: - incomplete active file
134 RATE: SEVERE
135 NEW IN: old
136 FIXED: 1.9.37
137
138 BUG: - fetchnews misses lots of articles
139 - lots of "cannot parse server reply" in the logs, with lines from
140 article text
141 RATE: SEVERE
142 TRIGG: filtered articles
143 NEW IN: 1.9.33
144 FIXED: 1.9.36
145 BUGFIX: update to >=1.9.36, then run fetchnews with -x option to fetch the
146 missed articles, example: fetchnews -nx 1000
147
148 BUG: - newsreader hangs when accessing an article without Message-ID
149 RATE: MODERATE
150 TRIGG: news spool corruption
151 FIXED: 1.9.33
152
153 BUG: - fetchnews doesn't post articles (incompatibility)
154 RATE: IRRELEVANT
155 TRIGG: user hasn't read UPDATING instructions properly
156 NEW IN: 1.9.23
157 FIXED: 1.9.33
158
159 BUG: - fetchnews cannot access articles after switching delaybody to 0
160 RATE: MODERATE
161 FIXED: 1.9.33
162
163 BUG: - not getting pseudo article when "reviving" an uninteresting group
164 RATE: MODERATE
165 FIXED: 1.9.33
166
167 BUG: - pressing Ctrl-C more than once confuses leafnode
168 RATE: MODERATE
169 FIXED: 1.9.33
170 CREDIT: Ralf Wildenhues (sent bugfix)
171
172 BUG: - timeout not detected on non-BSD, non-Linux systems
173 RATE: MODERATE
174 FIXED: 1.9.31
175 CREDIT: Richard van der Hoff (sent bugfix)
176
177 BUG: - leafnode goes 100% CPU when requesting article by message-ID
178 RATE: CRITICAL, SECURITY (trusted host denial of service)
179 FIXED: 1.9.33 for good, first attempt in 1.9.30
180 CREDIT: Jan Knutar (report)
181
182 BUG: - fetchnews segfaults when new groups are on server
183 RATE: CRITICAL
184 FIXED: 1.9.29
185 CREDIT: Ken Shan
186
187 BUG: - leafnode goes 100% CPU on machines with lots of network interfaces
188 RATE: CRITICAL
189 NEW IN: 1.9.23
190 FIXED: 1.9.27
191
192 BUG: - texpire chokes if /var/spool/news/lost+found exists
193 RATE: MODERATE
194 FIXED: 1.9.26
195 CREDIT: William Grinolds
196
197 BUG: - leafnode: NNTP command LIST ACTIVE.TIME returns bogus data
198 RATE: MINOR
199 FIXED: 1.9.25
200
201 BUG: - crashes when XOVER is sent before GROUP
202 - ARTICLE/STAT/HEAD/BODY to current article pointer fails
203 RATE: MODERATE
204 FIXED: 1.9.24
205
206 BUG: - incomplete article posted by fetchnews
207 RATE: CRITICAL (data loss)
208 TRIGG: fetchnews runs at the same time as a client posts the article
209 FIXED: 1.9.23
210
211 BUG: - Bogus Message-ID generated for posted articles
212 RATE: MINOR
213 FIXED: 1.9.23
214 CREDIT: Andreas Muck
215
216 BUG: - locking does not work at all
217 RATE: CRITICAL (data loss)
218 FIXED: 1.9.20
219 TRIGG: multiple fetchnews/texpire run at the same time