On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Jakub Wilk wrote:

> Hi Jan!
> 
> * Jan Darmochwal <jdarmoch...@gmx.de>, 2015-02-07, 23:03:
> > What the patch does:
> > * allocate enough memory to add angle brackets to From line values
> 
> This is to fix off-by-one heap overflow when parsing addresses that have left
> angle bracket, then a comma, but no right angle bracket.
> For example: <m...@example.com,
> 
> > * do not "skip" the last character of a string
> 
> This is to fix another off-by-one heap overflow when parsing addresses that
> end with backslash.
> For example: <m...@example.com\
> 
> Thanks a lot for identifying the vulnerabilities.
> The patch looks good to me!

Thanks a lot, Jakub. I'm going to include your explanation in the
changelog as well.


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