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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3292">http://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3292</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I installed and started Cyrus IMAP v2.4.2 on Solaris 9 Sparc. Every time I<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>tried to connect, the connection would fail and the log would show (for<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>example) "process 12723 exited, signaled to death by 11". If I added a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>definition for "servername" to the imapd.conf file, it would run OK and I was<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>able to connect. The code causing the problem is in the function<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>session_new_id() in the file imap/global.c:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> base = config_getstring(IMAPOPT_SYSLOG_PREFIX);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> if (!base) base = config_getstring(IMAPOPT_SERVERNAME);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> snprintf(session_id_buf, MAX_SESSIONID_SIZE, "%.128s-%d-%d-%d",<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> base, getpid(), session_id_time, session_id_count);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>servername and syslog_prefix are documented as optional, but if neither one is<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>explicitly defined in imapd.conf, then the character pointer "base" is zero,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>which causes a SEGV in snprintf(). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Larry<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>