Overflow in editor in Circlemud patch 15/And one in Oasis olc 2.0

From: Andrey Fidrya (andrey@alex-ua.com)
Date: 06/24/99


>When you are editing and if you put in more text than the buffer
>can hold you get the message String too long.  Last line skipped.
>Do that enough times and the editor will eventually crash the mud,
>the editor seems to be adding 1 char whenever you get that message.
>So even though there is some overflow protection, it isnt enough ;)


This bug is present in OasisOLC advanced text editor, not in stock
CircleMUD. I reported it ~year ago and George made a fix for it, but
this fix was incomplete and game still crashed.

Zmey // 3MoonsWorld (rmud.net.ru:4000)


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