Garbage written at end

[Alexandre Vaissiere]

Binary package hint: ssmtp

In some circumstances, for example when a process pauses during ouputting data, without sending a newline, ssmtp writes garbage in emails, corresponding to an uninitialized part of a buffer. Happens every day on my machines where cronjobs output lot of data.

Bug is explained here, with a perl script that reproduces the problem.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508759

Bug was reproduced on karmic:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
$ apt-cache policy ssmtp
ssmtp:
  Installed: 2.63-1
  Candidate: 2.63-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.63-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

and lucid
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
$ apt-cache policy ssmtp
ssmtp:
  Installed: 2.64-4fakesync1
  Candidate: 2.64-4fakesync1
  Version table:
 *** 2.64-4fakesync1 0
        500 ftp://192.168.0.140/ubuntu/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.