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Revision 1.18 by root, Tue Oct 15 23:20:29 2002 UTC vs.
Revision 1.66 by root, Thu Feb 27 04:05:43 2020 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib. 1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2 2
30.31 3_FP_gets still 70% of scan time. decode time: 24% _FP_gets, uulib_crc32 23%, UUValidData 11%
4
5 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code.
6 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
7 some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
8 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part.
9
101.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
11 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
12 to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
13 with very slow fgetc.
14
151.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
16 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
17 and some other minor issues.
18
191.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
20 - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
21 by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
22 on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
23 of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
24
251.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
26 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
27 - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
28 allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
29 pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
30 safely in the future.
31 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
32 - added stability canary support.
33
341.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
35 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
36 message is too long.
37 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
38 - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
39 before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.
40
411.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
42 - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
43 (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
44 - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.
45
461.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
47 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
48 I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
49 what he does;
50 but I doubt he even knows;
51 what he did.
52
531.32 Wed Sep 16 20:07:13 CEST 2009
54 - Due to a glitch with CVS, configure lacked executable bits.
55 (Quickly reported by Anton Berezin).
56
571.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
58 - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
59 functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
60 (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
61 disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.
62
631.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
64 - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
65 expected (but not intended).
66 - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
67 by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
68 (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
69 - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
70 call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
71 (easily by a factor of 10..100).
72 - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
73 - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
74 - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
75 255 octet ones.
76 - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
77
781.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
79 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
80 to avoid false matches.
81 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
82 - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
83 example decoder.
84
851.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
86 - don't ask.
87
881.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
89 - fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
90 mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
91
921.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
93 - create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
94 it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
95 files.
96 - some minor cleanups.
97
981.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
99 - URGENT update, the last release did not
100 decode files correctly, usually not at all.
101 - my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
102 (sorry. looked simple...).
103
1041.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
105 - fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
106 and patch by Mark Martinec.
107
1081.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
109 - fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
110 fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
111 reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
112 - new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
113 stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
114
1151.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
116 - change of contact address.
117 - updated perl parts to GPLv2.
118
1191.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
120 - fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
121 and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
122
1231.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
124 - slightly improved subject filename extraction.
125 Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
126
1271.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
128 - upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
129 overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
130 were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
131 documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
132 As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
133 I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
134 to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
135
1361.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
137 - renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
138 shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
139
1401.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
141 - make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
142 - very short files might not be detected because the header
143 parsing code might skip them.
144
1451.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
146 - change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
147 and use the last bracket found otherwise.
148 - part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
149 - updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.
150
1510.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
152 - no internal code changes.
4 - much better documentation, now considered "useful". 153 - much better documentation, now considered "useful".
5 - removed the procedural interface. 154 - removed the procedural interface.
155 - fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
156 - stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
6 157
70.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002 1580.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
8 - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes 159 - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
9 have went into uulib, sdo the number of differences decreased a bit 160 have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
10 again. 161 again.
11 - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank 162 - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
12 Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people 163 Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
13 who sent in patches :( 164 who sent in patches :(
14 - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file. 165 - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.

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