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Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.

_FP_gets still 70% of scan time. decode time: 24% _FP_gets, uulib_crc32 23%, UUValidData 11%

        - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
        - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
          which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
        - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
        - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
          some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
        - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part.
        - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.

1.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
        - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
          to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
          with very slow fgetc.

1.61 Sun Feb  9 18:38:29 CET 2020
        - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
          and some other minor issues.

1.6  Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
        - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
          by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
          on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
          of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.

1.5  Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
        - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
        - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
          allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
          pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
          safely in the future.
        - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
        - added stability canary support.

1.4  Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
        - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
          message is too long.
        - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
        - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
          before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.

1.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
        - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
          (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
        - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.

1.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
        - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
          I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
          what he does;
          but I doubt he even knows;
          what he did.

1.32 Wed Sep 16 20:07:13 CEST 2009
        - Due to a glitch with CVS, configure lacked executable bits.
          (Quickly reported by Anton Berezin).

1.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
        - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
          functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
          (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
          disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.

1.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
        - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
          expected (but not intended).
        - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
          by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
          (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
        - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
          call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
          (easily by a factor of 10..100).
        - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
        - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
        - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
          255 octet ones.
        - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.

1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
        - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
          to avoid false matches.
        - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
        - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
          example decoder.

1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
        - don't ask.

1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
        - fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
          mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).

1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
        - create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
          it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
          files.
        - some minor cleanups.

1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
        - URGENT update, the last release did not
          decode files correctly, usually not at all.
        - my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
          (sorry. looked simple...).

1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
        - fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
          and patch by Mark Martinec.

1.06 Tue Dec  6 00:56:05 CET 2005
        - fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
          fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
          reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
        - new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
          stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.

1.051 Thu Mar  3 18:00:52 CET 2005
        - change of contact address.
        - updated perl parts to GPLv2.

1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
        - fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
          and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).

1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
        - slightly improved subject filename extraction.
          Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.

1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
        - upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
          overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
          were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
          documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
          As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
          I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
          to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.

1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
        - renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
          shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.

1.01 Sun Feb  1 19:49:51 CET 2004
        - make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
        - very short files might not be detected because the header
          parsing code might skip them.

1.0  Thu Nov  6 14:32:08 CET 2003
        - change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
          and use the last bracket found otherwise.
        - part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
        - updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.

0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
        - no internal code changes.
        - much better documentation, now considered "useful".
        - removed the procedural interface.
        - fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
        - stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.

0.3   Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
        - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
          have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
          again.
        - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
          Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
          who sent in patches :(
        - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
        - much smaller distribution filesize ;)

0.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
        - fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.

0.212 Sat Apr  6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
        - fix yEnc decoding support.
        - new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
        - increased linelength to 1195.

0.211 Fri Apr  5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
        - *sigh*. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
          fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
          alerted me...

0.21  Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
        - bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
        - source-renamed FP_*-symbols to _FP_* again, but still define them
          to be FP_* in the object file.
        - new callback: SetFileNameCallback (actually documented ;)

0.201 Sun Sep 16 03:43:38 CEST 2001
        - fixed another segfault-bug in uulib, thanks to Lars Hecking who
          provides all the test files ;)

0.2  Thu Jun 14 18:42:49 CEST 2001
        - Frank Pilhofer is NOT dead! He is alive, kicking, and fixing
          bugs in uulib now! Since his uulib and mine diverged quite
          a bit I am still in the process of merging his bugfixes
          into my version. So be aware that this might introduce new
          instabilities...
        - merged uulib-0.5.15
        - optimize decode_file to not copy the file contents when a rename
          succeeds (TMPDIR same disk as destination).
        - updated documentation.

0.111 Fri May  4 22:29:09 CEST 2001
        - heuristic to decode microsoft-rfc822-headers (microsoft uses
          '\' as path seperator which is also the rfc822 quote character.
          of course they could have quoted it, but it's microsoft, so
          only the devil knows how they try to parse mime (they obviously
          haven't read the standard AGAIN). in case you wonder, this fixes
          the "c:my_documentssend.doc" "filename" problem.

0.11  Sun Jul 16 22:42:57 CEST 2000
        - fixed a bug in the file callback.

0.10  Tue May  2 03:31:09 CEST 2000
        - fixed one very longstanding bug that might have been the cause
          for the many mysterious segmentation faults. Hopefully.
        - improved documentation to the point that it slowly becomes useful
          as a (very quick) reference.

0.07  Wed Nov 24 18:45:23 CET 1999
        - removed END { CleanUp } from UUlib.pm, perl is too
          buggy to rely on this in the face of popen etc..

0.06  Thu Jul 29 22:48:18 CEST 1999
        - Thierry Bezecourt had the very reasonable idea to include
          the example source in the manpage.

0.05  Mon May 24 11:37:25 CEST 1999
        - LoadFile returns number of parts loaded.

0.04  Mon May 10 22:02:31 CEST 1999
        - fixed a couple of portability problems.
        - UUEncodeToStream had a wrong definition.
        - added primitive testsuite.
        - added README.

0.03  Sat May  8 22:40:01 CEST 1999
        - renamed it to Convert::UUlib.

0.02  Fri May  7 01:26:19 CEST 1999
        - function names exportable (use :all-tag).
        - made uulist-related functions methods.
        - the first fix from cpan-tester. *sigh* you people save the
          world, continuously.

0.01  Thu May  6 14:30:44 1999
        - original version; created by h2xs 1.19

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