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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2    
3 root 1.79 TODO: biggest timesinks: FP_fgets/getc_unlocked overall, UUInsertPartToList dominates large loads due to O(n**2) search
4    
5 root 1.76 04:59:03 <kentnl> schmorp: you may want to change the description on Convert-UUlib, because your bundled copy
6     is now better maintained and has fewer security risks than upstreams :p
7     04:59:49 <kentnl> to the point I've been humoring the idea of cribbing its code and shipping it as a
8     replacement for other things currently using the original uulib
9     06:51:00 <schmorp> kentnl: well, hmm, but change it to what, it still is an interface to "a" uulib library at
10     least
11     06:52:26 <kentnl> Maybe "Convert to/from uuencoded data in C" or something like that.
12    
13 root 1.79 - update large decoder example to disable OPT_AUTOCHK dn use Smerge -1.
14     - relatively minor speed increasses.
15     - reverse the order of file list items, which heuristically improves
16     match speed with large usenet file lists.
17 root 1.77 - use getc instead of fgetc.
18     - clean up FP _symbol names.
19     - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
20 root 1.78 - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
21 root 1.79 - misc very minor code improvements.
22 root 1.80 - remove quite a bit of pre-posix/dos/etc. cruft.
23     - use flockfile, if avaiolable, for a potential but small
24     speed gain.
25 root 1.76
26 root 1.75 1.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
27 root 1.74 - backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
28    
29 root 1.73 1.7 Sat Feb 29 22:07:54 CET 2020
30 root 1.70 - new function: GetFileList.
31 root 1.69 - experimental perlmulticore support (see manpage).
32 root 1.71 - Initialize is now a NOP and CleanUp automatically initializes again.
33 root 1.72 - updated example decoder and documentation a bit.
34 root 1.67 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
35 root 1.68 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
36 root 1.67 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
37     which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
38 root 1.68 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
39     the part crcs together to form the file crc.
40 root 1.66 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
41     some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
42 root 1.69 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part,
43     which avoids spurious corruption warnings.
44 root 1.67 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
45 root 1.72 - convert constant creation to the method I normally use.
46     - use common::sense.
47 root 1.65
48 root 1.64 1.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
49 root 1.63 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
50     to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
51     with very slow fgetc.
52    
53     1.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
54 root 1.62 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
55     and some other minor issues.
56    
57 root 1.61 1.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
58     - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
59     by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
60     on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
61     of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
62    
63 root 1.60 1.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
64 root 1.58 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
65     - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
66     allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
67     pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
68     safely in the future.
69 root 1.59 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
70 root 1.60 - added stability canary support.
71 root 1.58
72 root 1.56 1.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
73     - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
74     message is too long.
75 root 1.57 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
76 root 1.55 - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
77     before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.
78    
79 root 1.54 1.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
80 root 1.53 - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
81     (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
82     - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.
83    
84 root 1.52 1.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
85 root 1.51 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
86     I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
87     what he does;
88     but I doubt he even knows;
89     what he did.
90    
91 root 1.50 1.32 Wed Sep 16 20:07:13 CEST 2009
92     - Due to a glitch with CVS, configure lacked executable bits.
93     (Quickly reported by Anton Berezin).
94    
95 root 1.49 1.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
96 root 1.48 - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
97     functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
98     (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
99     disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.
100    
101 root 1.47 1.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
102 root 1.46 - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
103     expected (but not intended).
104 root 1.47 - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
105 root 1.46 by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
106     (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
107 root 1.44 - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
108 root 1.45 call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
109     (easily by a factor of 10..100).
110     - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
111     - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
112     - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
113     255 octet ones.
114     - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
115 root 1.44
116 root 1.43 1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
117 root 1.41 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
118     to avoid false matches.
119 root 1.42 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
120 root 1.56 - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
121 root 1.43 example decoder.
122 root 1.41
123 root 1.39 1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
124     - don't ask.
125    
126 root 1.38 1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
127     - fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
128 root 1.40 mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
129 root 1.38
130 root 1.37 1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
131     - create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
132     it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
133     files.
134     - some minor cleanups.
135    
136 root 1.33 1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
137 root 1.34 - URGENT update, the last release did not
138 root 1.33 decode files correctly, usually not at all.
139 root 1.38 - my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
140 root 1.33 (sorry. looked simple...).
141    
142 root 1.32 1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
143     - fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
144 root 1.33 and patch by Mark Martinec.
145 root 1.32
146 root 1.31 1.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
147 root 1.29 - fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
148     fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
149     reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
150 root 1.30 - new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
151     stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
152 root 1.29
153 root 1.28 1.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
154     - change of contact address.
155     - updated perl parts to GPLv2.
156    
157 root 1.27 1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
158     - fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
159     and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
160    
161 root 1.26 1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
162     - slightly improved subject filename extraction.
163     Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
164    
165 root 1.25 1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
166     - upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
167     overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
168     were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
169     documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
170     As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
171     I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
172     to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
173    
174 root 1.24 1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
175     - renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
176     shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
177    
178 root 1.23 1.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
179 root 1.22 - make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
180 root 1.23 - very short files might not be detected because the header
181     parsing code might skip them.
182 root 1.22
183 root 1.21 1.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
184 root 1.20 - change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
185     and use the last bracket found otherwise.
186     - part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
187 root 1.21 - updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.
188 root 1.20
189 root 1.19 0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
190     - no internal code changes.
191 root 1.18 - much better documentation, now considered "useful".
192     - removed the procedural interface.
193 root 1.20 - fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
194 root 1.19 - stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
195 root 1.18
196 root 1.15 0.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
197 root 1.17 - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
198 root 1.20 have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
199 root 1.17 again.
200     - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
201     Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
202     who sent in patches :(
203 root 1.14 - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
204 root 1.16 - much smaller distribution filesize ;)
205 root 1.14
206 root 1.12 0.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
207     - fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.
208    
209 root 1.10 0.212 Sat Apr 6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
210     - fix yEnc decoding support.
211     - new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
212 root 1.11 - increased linelength to 1195.
213 root 1.10
214 root 1.9 0.211 Fri Apr 5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
215 root 1.13 - *sigh*. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
216     fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
217 root 1.9 alerted me...
218    
219 root 1.7 0.21 Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
220     - bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
221     - source-renamed FP_*-symbols to _FP_* again, but still define them
222     to be FP_* in the object file.
223 root 1.8 - new callback: SetFileNameCallback (actually documented ;)
224 root 1.7
225 root 1.6 0.201 Sun Sep 16 03:43:38 CEST 2001
226 root 1.5 - fixed another segfault-bug in uulib, thanks to Lars Hecking who
227     provides all the test files ;)
228 root 1.2
229 root 1.5 0.2 Thu Jun 14 18:42:49 CEST 2001
230     - Frank Pilhofer is NOT dead! He is alive, kicking, and fixing
231 root 1.1 bugs in uulib now! Since his uulib and mine diverged quite
232     a bit I am still in the process of merging his bugfixes
233     into my version. So be aware that this might introduce new
234     instabilities...
235     - merged uulib-0.5.15
236 root 1.3 - optimize decode_file to not copy the file contents when a rename
237     succeeds (TMPDIR same disk as destination).
238 root 1.4 - updated documentation.
239 root 1.1
240     0.111 Fri May 4 22:29:09 CEST 2001
241     - heuristic to decode microsoft-rfc822-headers (microsoft uses
242     '\' as path seperator which is also the rfc822 quote character.
243     of course they could have quoted it, but it's microsoft, so
244     only the devil knows how they try to parse mime (they obviously
245     haven't read the standard AGAIN). in case you wonder, this fixes
246     the "c:my_documentssend.doc" "filename" problem.
247    
248     0.11 Sun Jul 16 22:42:57 CEST 2000
249     - fixed a bug in the file callback.
250    
251     0.10 Tue May 2 03:31:09 CEST 2000
252     - fixed one very longstanding bug that might have been the cause
253     for the many mysterious segmentation faults. Hopefully.
254     - improved documentation to the point that it slowly becomes useful
255     as a (very quick) reference.
256    
257     0.07 Wed Nov 24 18:45:23 CET 1999
258     - removed END { CleanUp } from UUlib.pm, perl is too
259     buggy to rely on this in the face of popen etc..
260    
261     0.06 Thu Jul 29 22:48:18 CEST 1999
262     - Thierry Bezecourt had the very reasonable idea to include
263     the example source in the manpage.
264    
265     0.05 Mon May 24 11:37:25 CEST 1999
266     - LoadFile returns number of parts loaded.
267    
268     0.04 Mon May 10 22:02:31 CEST 1999
269     - fixed a couple of portability problems.
270     - UUEncodeToStream had a wrong definition.
271     - added primitive testsuite.
272     - added README.
273    
274     0.03 Sat May 8 22:40:01 CEST 1999
275     - renamed it to Convert::UUlib.
276    
277     0.02 Fri May 7 01:26:19 CEST 1999
278     - function names exportable (use :all-tag).
279     - made uulist-related functions methods.
280     - the first fix from cpan-tester. *sigh* you people save the
281     world, continuously.
282    
283     0.01 Thu May 6 14:30:44 1999
284     - original version; created by h2xs 1.19
285