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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com>
Subject: Re: Bug in tcp wrappers?
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On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Mikko Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi wrote:

> The real fix involves rewriting chunks of the libwrap code, or finding
> a version where someone has already done so.

It doesn't seem like it should be too bad.  xgets is only called in three=
=20
places.  It would be easy enough to replace it with something like glibc's=
=20
getline(3), that uses realloc to size a buffer appropriately.

If nobody else feels like doing this, maybe I will.

--=20

Nate Eldredge
neldredge@math.ucsd.edu
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