Possible string handling bug in samba 2.2.8a

[M A Young]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, M A Young wrote:
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> > I have just upgraded our main print server to 2.2.8a (from 2.0.10), and
> > had my a few host samba log files filled up (until the file system ran out
> > of disk space) by errors like
> > [2003/04/15 01:49:16, 0] lib/util_str.c:string_sub(1221)
> >   ERROR: string overflow by 4 in string_sub(%I, 406)
> > starting as soon as a session connected.
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> I woundn't call this a bug.  Perhaps a limitation though.
> You are limited to 1024 characters for parameter string values.
> Why not just package your print command in a script?

Yes, but by my calculations even with all the % values substituted the
string is only about 800 characters. I could use a script instead, though
it looks like the problem I was working around with this command has now
been fixed anyway.

	Michael Young