Bug 244480 – mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r3: cram-md5 does not work on x64 architecture.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ingo 2008-10-26 15:19:57 UTC]

cram-md5 authentication does not work on AMD64 platform.

Reproducible: Always




Here is a super simple [PATCH] which fixes the problem and which should also work on every 32 bit architecture:

------------------------ SNIP -----------------------------------------------
Fix UINT4 type definition for AMD64. Will also work on 32 bit architecture.

--- md5auth/global.h    2002-09-27 14:16:24.000000000 +0200
+++ md5auth/global.h    2008-10-26 16:04:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 typedef unsigned short int UINT2;

 /* UINT4 defines a four byte word */
-typedef unsigned long int UINT4;
+typedef unsigned int UINT4;

 /* PROTO_LIST is defined depending on how PROTOTYPES is defined above.
 If using PROTOTYPES, then PROTO_LIST returns the list, otherwise it

------------------------ SNIP -----------------------------------------------

[Comment 1 Ingo 2008-10-26 15:43:00 UTC]

Created attachment 169938 [details, diff]
Fixes UINT5 type definition, so it works for AMD64 platform. (Should also work for 32 bit platforms!)

I think it would be a lot cleaner to use "u_int16_t" and "u_int32_t", but this would require to include "sys/types.h". Not sure if this is wanted.

[Comment 2 Ingo 2008-10-26 15:45:48 UTC]

Created attachment 169940 [details, diff]
Fixes UINT4 type definition by using u_int32_t instead,

This patch uses "u_int32_t" from "sys/types.h", but unfortunately this means a bigger patch.
Choose which one you like

[Comment 3 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2008-11-29 20:23:55 UTC]

Did you report those patches upstream? 

[Comment 4 Ingo 2009-02-21 15:35:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Did you report those patches upstream? 
> 

Sorry for answering so late.
It seems I did not get this via regular E-Mail.

I didn't report this upstream.
But now that you mentioned it I mailed the patch to
[e-mail]
and
[e-mail]  (the Maintainer of ssmtp ?)

I hope this helps ?

[Comment 5 Ingo 2009-08-15 11:30:36 UTC]

> ...
> But now that you mentioned it I mailed the patch to
> [e-mail]
> and
> [e-mail]  (the Maintainer of ssmtp ?)
> 
> I hope this helps ?
> 

Currently there seems to be no activity upstream.
Would it be possible to just integrate this patch into gentoo ?

so long
  Ingo

PS: Just updated my system and again had to apply the patch myself...

[Comment 6 Mark Gannon 2009-09-18 17:20:05 UTC]

I've also encountered this issue and would like to see the patch applied to the official ebuild.

[Comment 7 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2011-01-19 13:49:57 UTC]

This was fixed upstream for 2.64 so it's in tree now.