Re: [gmime-devel] Minor issue with uninitialized var

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj gnome org>]

Hi Ariman,

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll look into fixing this.

Jeff

On 8/13/2012 11:33 AM, Ariman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've found minor issue in GMime code.
>
> In function gmime-utils.c:tokenize_rfc2047_phrase on line 2014
>         token->is_8bit = ascii ? 0 : 1;
> there may be situation when variable 'ascii' is not initialized and 
> have arbitrary value. Execution path never reach lines when this 
> variable receive value and it is not initialized on function start. It 
> is not really a big issue but still can be unpleasant.
>
> To get the same results you can call this function with any simple 
> phrase as input, e.g. Hello World or something like that. I've got 
> this behavior during decoding of name part of From header.
>
> I'm using version 2.6.10.
>
> Best regards,
> Ariman