[sylpheed:31091] Re: Trouble parsing attachments

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Wed Apr 4 15:49:36 JST 2007


Hello,

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:57:51 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> In the current implementation, Sylpheed will stop MIME parsing if the
> level of nesting reaches 8. Maybe your message reached that
> restriction.
> 
> I think this restriction has been added to prevent DoS attack, but
> it seems that the threshold should be raised now (to 256 or
> something).

Hmm, maybe 256 is too big since the function is using recursive call,
and it allocates 8KB buffer on the stack for each call.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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