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I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 4:59 pm
by Im 'corneum
so i was fooling around with copy and paste. well then i put the following in my Host address "██████████... (until it was full). and when it was full, my client looked like this and still does. sos
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:18 pm
by deen
Can you be more specific about what you did?
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:24 pm
by Im 'corneum
i just put this square: "█" in the host adress-tag. but very often (████....) and then i it just happened.
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:28 pm
by deen
Edit: Ok, found it, thanks for the report.
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:35 pm
by Im 'corneum
there
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:39 pm
by deen
F1, ui_scale 100 to fix it for yourself btw. Will be fixed in the next client version.
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:41 pm
by Im 'corneum
thank you deen :)
can you explain what happened? Because i cant see a connection between this bar and the ui_scale o.O
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:52 pm
by deen
You found a buffer overflow in the implementation of the paste feature. So your text ended up overwriting the default ui_scale value.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow
https://git.io/vrIRy
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:56 pm
by Im 'corneum
aah okay.
does it mean there could be more of this stuff?
Re: I broke my Client
Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 5:58 pm
by deen
Sure. If you find any more, let us know.