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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:50:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen fts.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912181246340.76308-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <199912181653.JAA91039@harmony.village.org>

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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912182011460.3596-100000@alphplex.bde.org> Bruce Evans writes:
> : Not approved by: bde.  I don't even approve of the way it was changed in
> : -current (splatting the OpenBSD version on top of the FreeBSD version
> : without analyzing the differences in detail).
> 
> Likewise.  I had concluded that we're immune to the overflow at one
> point based on a lot of testing and much gnashing of teeth.  The
> commit surprised me.

I concluded otherwise.  Which has more weight: the evidence toward
immunity, or the evidence toward vulnerability?  I can assure you
that this problem was still there under 3.X a few months ago, with
RELENG_3 and HEAD fts.c, but only fixed in OpenBSD's fts.c.  And
nothing's changed since then before now;  both HEAD and RELENG_3
both had big problems with fts(3).

> One reason I didn't do something similar was that there were binary
> compat issues that I didn't want to introduce...

Huh?  The API didn't change, at all.

> 
> Warner
> 

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