ViewVC Help
View File | Revision Log | Show Annotations | Download File
/cvs/Convert-UUlib/Changes
Revision: 1.78
Committed: Fri Dec 11 20:27:00 2020 UTC (3 years, 5 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.77: +1 -0 lines
Log Message:
*** empty log message ***

File Contents

# User Rev Content
1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2    
3 root 1.76 04:59:03 <kentnl> schmorp: you may want to change the description on Convert-UUlib, because your bundled copy
4     is now better maintained and has fewer security risks than upstreams :p
5     04:59:49 <kentnl> to the point I've been humoring the idea of cribbing its code and shipping it as a
6     replacement for other things currently using the original uulib
7     06:51:00 <schmorp> kentnl: well, hmm, but change it to what, it still is an interface to "a" uulib library at
8     least
9     06:52:26 <kentnl> Maybe "Convert to/from uuencoded data in C" or something like that.
10     TODO: UUInsertPartToList at uucheck.c:1172 main timesink now
11    
12     - very minor code improvements.
13 root 1.77 - use getc instead of fgetc.
14     - clean up FP _symbol names.
15     - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
16 root 1.78 - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
17 root 1.76
18 root 1.75 1.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
19 root 1.74 - backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
20    
21 root 1.73 1.7 Sat Feb 29 22:07:54 CET 2020
22 root 1.70 - new function: GetFileList.
23 root 1.69 - experimental perlmulticore support (see manpage).
24 root 1.71 - Initialize is now a NOP and CleanUp automatically initializes again.
25 root 1.72 - updated example decoder and documentation a bit.
26 root 1.67 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
27 root 1.68 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
28 root 1.67 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
29     which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
30 root 1.68 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
31     the part crcs together to form the file crc.
32 root 1.66 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
33     some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
34 root 1.69 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part,
35     which avoids spurious corruption warnings.
36 root 1.67 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
37 root 1.72 - convert constant creation to the method I normally use.
38     - use common::sense.
39 root 1.65
40 root 1.64 1.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
41 root 1.63 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
42     to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
43     with very slow fgetc.
44    
45     1.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
46 root 1.62 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
47     and some other minor issues.
48    
49 root 1.61 1.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
50     - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
51     by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
52     on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
53     of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
54    
55 root 1.60 1.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
56 root 1.58 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
57     - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
58     allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
59     pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
60     safely in the future.
61 root 1.59 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
62 root 1.60 - added stability canary support.
63 root 1.58
64 root 1.56 1.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
65     - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
66     message is too long.
67 root 1.57 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
68 root 1.55 - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
69     before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.
70    
71 root 1.54 1.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
72 root 1.53 - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
73     (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
74     - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.
75    
76 root 1.52 1.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
77 root 1.51 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
78     I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
79     what he does;
80     but I doubt he even knows;
81     what he did.
82    
83 root 1.50 1.32 Wed Sep 16 20:07:13 CEST 2009
84     - Due to a glitch with CVS, configure lacked executable bits.
85     (Quickly reported by Anton Berezin).
86    
87 root 1.49 1.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
88 root 1.48 - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
89     functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
90     (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
91     disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.
92    
93 root 1.47 1.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
94 root 1.46 - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
95     expected (but not intended).
96 root 1.47 - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
97 root 1.46 by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
98     (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
99 root 1.44 - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
100 root 1.45 call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
101     (easily by a factor of 10..100).
102     - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
103     - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
104     - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
105     255 octet ones.
106     - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
107 root 1.44
108 root 1.43 1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
109 root 1.41 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
110     to avoid false matches.
111 root 1.42 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
112 root 1.56 - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
113 root 1.43 example decoder.
114 root 1.41
115 root 1.39 1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
116     - don't ask.
117    
118 root 1.38 1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
119     - fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
120 root 1.40 mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
121 root 1.38
122 root 1.37 1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
123     - create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
124     it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
125     files.
126     - some minor cleanups.
127    
128 root 1.33 1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
129 root 1.34 - URGENT update, the last release did not
130 root 1.33 decode files correctly, usually not at all.
131 root 1.38 - my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
132 root 1.33 (sorry. looked simple...).
133    
134 root 1.32 1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
135     - fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
136 root 1.33 and patch by Mark Martinec.
137 root 1.32
138 root 1.31 1.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
139 root 1.29 - fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
140     fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
141     reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
142 root 1.30 - new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
143     stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
144 root 1.29
145 root 1.28 1.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
146     - change of contact address.
147     - updated perl parts to GPLv2.
148    
149 root 1.27 1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
150     - fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
151     and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
152    
153 root 1.26 1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
154     - slightly improved subject filename extraction.
155     Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
156    
157 root 1.25 1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
158     - upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
159     overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
160     were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
161     documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
162     As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
163     I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
164     to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
165    
166 root 1.24 1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
167     - renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
168     shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
169    
170 root 1.23 1.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
171 root 1.22 - make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
172 root 1.23 - very short files might not be detected because the header
173     parsing code might skip them.
174 root 1.22
175 root 1.21 1.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
176 root 1.20 - change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
177     and use the last bracket found otherwise.
178     - part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
179 root 1.21 - updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.
180 root 1.20
181 root 1.19 0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
182     - no internal code changes.
183 root 1.18 - much better documentation, now considered "useful".
184     - removed the procedural interface.
185 root 1.20 - fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
186 root 1.19 - stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
187 root 1.18
188 root 1.15 0.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
189 root 1.17 - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
190 root 1.20 have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
191 root 1.17 again.
192     - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
193     Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
194     who sent in patches :(
195 root 1.14 - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
196 root 1.16 - much smaller distribution filesize ;)
197 root 1.14
198 root 1.12 0.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
199     - fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.
200    
201 root 1.10 0.212 Sat Apr 6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
202     - fix yEnc decoding support.
203     - new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
204 root 1.11 - increased linelength to 1195.
205 root 1.10
206 root 1.9 0.211 Fri Apr 5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
207 root 1.13 - *sigh*. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
208     fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
209 root 1.9 alerted me...
210    
211 root 1.7 0.21 Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
212     - bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
213     - source-renamed FP_*-symbols to _FP_* again, but still define them
214     to be FP_* in the object file.
215 root 1.8 - new callback: SetFileNameCallback (actually documented ;)
216 root 1.7
217 root 1.6 0.201 Sun Sep 16 03:43:38 CEST 2001
218 root 1.5 - fixed another segfault-bug in uulib, thanks to Lars Hecking who
219     provides all the test files ;)
220 root 1.2
221 root 1.5 0.2 Thu Jun 14 18:42:49 CEST 2001
222     - Frank Pilhofer is NOT dead! He is alive, kicking, and fixing
223 root 1.1 bugs in uulib now! Since his uulib and mine diverged quite
224     a bit I am still in the process of merging his bugfixes
225     into my version. So be aware that this might introduce new
226     instabilities...
227     - merged uulib-0.5.15
228 root 1.3 - optimize decode_file to not copy the file contents when a rename
229     succeeds (TMPDIR same disk as destination).
230 root 1.4 - updated documentation.
231 root 1.1
232     0.111 Fri May 4 22:29:09 CEST 2001
233     - heuristic to decode microsoft-rfc822-headers (microsoft uses
234     '\' as path seperator which is also the rfc822 quote character.
235     of course they could have quoted it, but it's microsoft, so
236     only the devil knows how they try to parse mime (they obviously
237     haven't read the standard AGAIN). in case you wonder, this fixes
238     the "c:my_documentssend.doc" "filename" problem.
239    
240     0.11 Sun Jul 16 22:42:57 CEST 2000
241     - fixed a bug in the file callback.
242    
243     0.10 Tue May 2 03:31:09 CEST 2000
244     - fixed one very longstanding bug that might have been the cause
245     for the many mysterious segmentation faults. Hopefully.
246     - improved documentation to the point that it slowly becomes useful
247     as a (very quick) reference.
248    
249     0.07 Wed Nov 24 18:45:23 CET 1999
250     - removed END { CleanUp } from UUlib.pm, perl is too
251     buggy to rely on this in the face of popen etc..
252    
253     0.06 Thu Jul 29 22:48:18 CEST 1999
254     - Thierry Bezecourt had the very reasonable idea to include
255     the example source in the manpage.
256    
257     0.05 Mon May 24 11:37:25 CEST 1999
258     - LoadFile returns number of parts loaded.
259    
260     0.04 Mon May 10 22:02:31 CEST 1999
261     - fixed a couple of portability problems.
262     - UUEncodeToStream had a wrong definition.
263     - added primitive testsuite.
264     - added README.
265    
266     0.03 Sat May 8 22:40:01 CEST 1999
267     - renamed it to Convert::UUlib.
268    
269     0.02 Fri May 7 01:26:19 CEST 1999
270     - function names exportable (use :all-tag).
271     - made uulist-related functions methods.
272     - the first fix from cpan-tester. *sigh* you people save the
273     world, continuously.
274    
275     0.01 Thu May 6 14:30:44 1999
276     - original version; created by h2xs 1.19
277