Re: FTP "SYST" NULL dereferencing crash (found by someone else)

From: Ulf Harnhammar <metaur@xxxxxxxxx>

+  if (request == NULL)
+    {
+      xfree (respline);
+      return FTPSRVERR;
+    }

   Well, yeah, if you prefer returning an error code to trying a little
harder.  I prefer my change:

    if (request == NULL)
      *server_type = ST_OTHER;

Why punish the user when the FTP server behaves badly?

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