Hello, IBM changed his mind and a hotfix that solves the problem is available. After installing the fix the server does not crash anymore when opening a message formatted as described below. Accessing the mail with IE on Windows leads to a browser hang. You have to terminate the browser with the task-manager, but I think this is not a big problem, since the server keeps on running and you can access all other mails in you box and the problem normally occurs only when opening malformatted mails. -- original problem report -- On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Andreas Klein wrote: > > Hello, > > this problem has been reported to IBM Lotus customer support > (PMR 37321,999,724) on Feb 16, 2004 and was reproduced by them. > > Affected versions: > Domino 6.5.1 and newer on Linux (other platforms not tested by me, but > Domino 6.5.1 on Windows has been found to be vulnerable too by IBM > support) > > > Abstract: > Opening certain mails via Domino Web Access leads to a crash of the whole > Domino-server. > > > Detailed description: > Open your favourite mail-program (eg. pine) and write a message to a > person reading his mail via Domino Web Access (formerly known as > iNotes) with the following message content: > (just paste all the lines below into the body of the mail) > > --- snip here; do not paste this line -- > Content-Disposition: Attachment; filename="PC210017.JPG" > Content-Type: image/jpeg; > Name="PC210017.JPG" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64 > > /9j/4Re0RXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAALAA4BAgAgAAAAkgAAAA8BAgAYAAAAsgAAABABAgAMAAAA > ygAAABIBAwABAAAAAQAAABoBBQABAAAA2AAAABsBBQABAAAA4AAAACgBAwABAAAAAgAAADEB > AgAJAAAA6AAAADIBAgAUAAAACAEAABMCAwABAAAAAgAAAGmHBAABAAAAHAEAAAADAABPTFlN > [Add here some megabytes of data. 1kB is not enough, but 12MB was > sufficient in all my tests] > --- snip here; do not pste this line --- > > As soon as the recipient opens the mail in Domino Web Access, the whole > Domino server will go down. > > Solution: > There is no solution provided by IBM and they are not planning to fix the > problem. The proposed workaround is to limit the maximum message-size or > to disable the web-access. > -- Andreas Klein asklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx root / webmaster @cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de root / webmaster @www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de _____________________________________ | | | Long live our gracious AMIGA! | |___________________________________|
