PGnus 0.9{5,7} hangs after generating summary buffer

[lofgren@sics.se (Thomas Löfgren)]

I'm forwarding a mail which made two PGnusae (unpatched 0.95 and dito
0.97) hang after generating the group summary.  When I selected the
group with this article, the message buffer said
 "Generating summary...done"
The summary buffer was empty, and Emacs stopped responding.

I finally tried with this Gnus version, Gnus v5.7, and in the summary
buffer, the author appears to be '0'.

I can't see anything strange with this article (other than the fact
that someone sent an unsubscribe message to the bugtraq list, and the
moderator let it go through!), so I suggest someone more clueful than
myself when it comes to the standards takes a look at it.

Tom
-- 
T. Lofgren <lofgren@sics.se> - Wherever I lay my .emacs, that's my ${HOME}
I thought I was wrong once before, but I realized I was mistaken.

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Date: 	Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:40:57 -0400
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Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [Linux] glibc 2.1.x / wu-ftpd <=2.5 / BeroFTPD / lynx /
vlock / mc / glibc 2.0.x


On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Norbert Warmuth wrote:
> Michal Zalewski writes:
> > Also, mc seems to have serious problems with directories containing
shell
> > commands enclosed in $(...) construction. Bad.
> What are you talking about? Please send details to
mc-bugs@nuclecu.unam.mx.

I haven't got any response from Michal and hasn't been able to
reproduce any problems with directories containing "$(...)" either.

Wojtek Pilorz reminded of the bash 1.14 vulnerability when PS1 contains
\w or \W. As MC doesn't touch PS1 blaming MC for this is more than
far-fetched.

Pavel Machek got the message 'Warning: Couldn't change to /tmp/$( ...
)'
because he triggered a MC bug which was fixed in March 1999 (release
4.5.27).

Last not least there was an issue with uncompressing files which was
fixed in 4.5.38.

The Midnight Commander bug's mentioned above are fixed in the latest
release which doesn't contain known security vulnerabilities. You can
get it from
     ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mc

Please report bugs to mc-bugs@nuclecu.unam.mx, thanks.

Kind regards,
Norbert

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