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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:32:43 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        pst@shockwave.com, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org, nate@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/rdist defs.h docmd.c expand.c lookup.c server.c
Message-ID:  <199607152132.XAA00791@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607142351.JAA10509@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199607142351.JAA10509@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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Bruce Evans writes:
>>It may be overboard, but it certainly doesn't _hurt_ :-)
>
>It may give a false sense of security.

Thats life. You close the front door and the burglar use the window
or kidnaps your children.


>> >   Should we disable sprintf() for sgid/suid programs?
>
>Why stop there?  Convert all strcpy()s to snprintf()s.  

Hm, Paul already started ;-) Why waiting for next CERT report? We have
~77 suid/sgid programs (total ~584 programs). Of course to much s-bits.


>pst         96/07/15 09:29:04
>
>  Modified:    usr.bin/rlogin  rlogin.c
>  Log:
>  Do a bounds check on the strcpy of environment variables onto the stack.
>  
>  Revision  Changes    Path
>  1.11      +1 -1      src/usr.bin/rlogin/rlogin.c

Wolfram



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