Menu Building and Buffer Overflows
From
Phillip Kimble@2:333/801 to
All on Sun Mar 23 19:20:19 2025
Salve!
The best part of BBSing is customizing the board to one's reflection & taste! Thus the reason a I enjoy MBSEBBS so much. It aint pretty, not alot of bells nor bling, but it is great at what it does!
As I have been off the net for an extended period of time, please forgive me if
this has already been highlighted...
With that out of the way, something discovered today & finally learned;
Menu option 6, Show Menu Prompt will cause Buffer Overflow
terminating the callers session if control characters are used!
Reading the 1.1.0 manual, The prompt shoudl be entered into the Optional Data
field. However, if the control characters are used, it causes the buffer overflow situation.
The easy fix is to move the prompt into the Display field. Everythjing works fine and no terminations...
Ciao!
Geezer < aka phiL >
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