From a8786a66feb3c003c74551399b345b1634cc6739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Harris Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 15:41:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix variable initialisation in smtp transport. Bug 2996 --- doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ src/src/transports/smtp.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index d29ba6f65..09b4d3a60 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day every 1024 days. +JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the + message being considered for delivery was already being handled by + another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function + to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect + high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads. + Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered + the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler. + Exim version 4.96 ----------------- diff --git a/src/src/transports/smtp.c b/src/src/transports/smtp.c index c5951832b..c72028ce9 100644 --- a/src/src/transports/smtp.c +++ b/src/src/transports/smtp.c @@ -4973,7 +4973,7 @@ smtp_transport_closedown(transport_instance *tblock) { smtp_transport_options_block * ob = SOB tblock->options_block; client_conn_ctx cctx; -smtp_context sx; +smtp_context sx = {0}; uschar buffer[256]; uschar inbuffer[4096]; uschar outbuffer[16]; -- 2.30.2