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Revision 1.9 by root, Fri Apr 5 21:56:57 2002 UTC vs.
Revision 1.68 by root, Thu Feb 27 16:17:16 2020 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib. 1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2 2
3_FP_gets still 70% of scan time. decode time: 24% _FP_gets, uulib_crc32 23%, UUValidData 11%
4
5 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
6 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
7 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
8 which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
9 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
10 the part crcs together to form the file crc.
11 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
12 some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
13 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part.
14 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
15
161.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
17 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
18 to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
19 with very slow fgetc.
20
211.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
22 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
23 and some other minor issues.
24
251.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
26 - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
27 by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
28 on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
29 of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
30
311.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
32 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
33 - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
34 allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
35 pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
36 safely in the future.
37 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
38 - added stability canary support.
39
401.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
41 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
42 message is too long.
43 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
44 - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
45 before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.
46
471.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
48 - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
49 (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
50 - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.
51
521.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
53 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
54 I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
55 what he does;
56 but I doubt he even knows;
57 what he did.
58
591.32 Wed Sep 16 20:07:13 CEST 2009
60 - Due to a glitch with CVS, configure lacked executable bits.
61 (Quickly reported by Anton Berezin).
62
631.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
64 - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
65 functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
66 (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
67 disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.
68
691.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
70 - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
71 expected (but not intended).
72 - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
73 by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
74 (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
75 - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
76 call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
77 (easily by a factor of 10..100).
78 - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
79 - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
80 - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
81 255 octet ones.
82 - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
83
841.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
85 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
86 to avoid false matches.
87 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
88 - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
89 example decoder.
90
911.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
92 - don't ask.
93
941.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
95 - fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
96 mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
97
981.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
99 - create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
100 it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
101 files.
102 - some minor cleanups.
103
1041.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
105 - URGENT update, the last release did not
106 decode files correctly, usually not at all.
107 - my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
108 (sorry. looked simple...).
109
1101.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
111 - fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
112 and patch by Mark Martinec.
113
1141.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
115 - fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
116 fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
117 reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
118 - new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
119 stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
120
1211.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
122 - change of contact address.
123 - updated perl parts to GPLv2.
124
1251.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
126 - fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
127 and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
128
1291.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
130 - slightly improved subject filename extraction.
131 Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
132
1331.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
134 - upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
135 overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
136 were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
137 documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
138 As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
139 I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
140 to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
141
1421.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
143 - renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
144 shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
145
1461.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
147 - make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
148 - very short files might not be detected because the header
149 parsing code might skip them.
150
1511.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
152 - change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
153 and use the last bracket found otherwise.
154 - part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
155 - updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.
156
1570.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
158 - no internal code changes.
159 - much better documentation, now considered "useful".
160 - removed the procedural interface.
161 - fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
162 - stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
163
1640.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
165 - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
166 have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
167 again.
168 - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
169 Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
170 who sent in patches :(
171 - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
172 - much smaller distribution filesize ;)
173
1740.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
175 - fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.
176
1770.212 Sat Apr 6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
178 - fix yEnc decoding support.
179 - new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
180 - increased linelength to 1195.
181
30.211 Fri Apr 5 23:56:46 CEST 2002 1820.211 Fri Apr 5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
4 - *sigh*. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows. 183 - *sigh*. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
5 I would not use this code in a virus-scanner, despite my efforts
6 to fix uulib. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have 184 fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
7 alerted me... 185 alerted me...
8 186
90.21 Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002 1870.21 Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
10 - bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED). 188 - bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
11 - source-renamed FP_*-symbols to _FP_* again, but still define them 189 - source-renamed FP_*-symbols to _FP_* again, but still define them

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