[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6585) Delta version 9

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6585 >

Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:07:21AM -0800, Arnstein Lindgard wrote:
> 
>><URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6585 >
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>>1)
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>>civserver
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>>>set ai 7
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>>civclient
>>(connect)
>>(start)
>>(select nation)
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>>Crash.
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>>civclient: packets.c:330: get_packet_from_connection: Assertion
>>`error == 0' failed.
> 
> The decompression buffer wasn't large enough.

The fact that this error is even possible is very bad.

Libz is good for decompressing linearly; shouldn't we be able to specify 
a maximum buffer size and decompress in clumps if necessary?  Otherwise, 
given an unbounded ratio of compression we have an unsolvable 
security-versus-correctness problem.

jason