Harden string-list handling

diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index d006d9dbe3d753db638e5b8d782e2dd73df3cde1..59281817e64f10fe897f698e34851629249f4d18 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048.  RHEL 8.0
 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
       side.  Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
 
+JH/36 Harder the handling of string-lists.  When a list consisted of a sole
+      "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
+      off past the nul-terimation.
+
 
 Exim version 4.91
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diff --git a/src/src/string.c b/src/src/string.c
index 332047460de282a3f0c68d20c577482ec2c981e3..2441f9b17a4c66df5783b166bf96f814556845c4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/src/string.c
+++ b/src/src/string.c
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ if (sep <= 0)
   if (*s == '<' && (ispunct(s[1]) || iscntrl(s[1])))
     {
     sep = s[1];
-    s += 2;
+    if (*++s) ++s;
     while (isspace(*s) && *s != sep) s++;
     }
   else