From: Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 16:49:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Harden string-list handling
X-Git-Tag: exim-4.92-RC1~9
X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b72f857fb5b9bfe800daf6d08da85f4bff81ce1d;p=exim.git

Harden string-list handling
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diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index d006d9dbe..59281817e 100644
--- 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
 -----------------
diff --git a/src/src/string.c b/src/src/string.c
index 332047460..2441f9b17 100644
--- 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