Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:04:00 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>, shin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net rcmd.3 rcmd.c Message-ID: <200007211404.KAA53922@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:22:30 PDT." <695.964160550@localhost> References: <695.964160550@localhost>
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Shouldn't these interfaces to a grossly insecure mechanism be depricated
rather than improved?
louie
> Seems like one to me.
>
> - Jordan
>
> > I think this is a MFC candidate... comments ?
> >
> > > brian 2000/07/20 02:05:15 PDT
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > lib/libc/net rcmd.3 rcmd.c
> > > Log:
> > > Alocate rcmd{,_af}()'s *ahost argument using malloc() (well
> > > strdup()) rather than pointing it at something that's free()d
> > > (via freeaddrinfo(res)) before the function returns.
> > >
> > > I appreciate that this is an API change, but it's the only way
> > > (AFAIK) of doing this without breaking existing code that uses
> > > rcmd{,_af}().
> > >
> > > Pointed out by: phkmalloc
> > >
> > > Revision Changes Path
> > > 1.15 +6 -1 src/lib/libc/net/rcmd.3
> > > 1.27 +10 -4 src/lib/libc/net/rcmd.c
> > >
> > >
> > >
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