Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 14:26:26 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD security auditing project. Message-ID: <19991123142626.D49964@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231412030.46173-100000@hub.freebsd.org>; from kris@hub.freebsd.org on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 02:15:52PM -0800 References: <99Nov24.075703est.40331@border.alcanet.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231412030.46173-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > A 'grep | wc' equivalent over the source tree gives: > > > > gets 110 > > strcat 2860 > > strcpy 4717 > > strncat 167 > > strncpy 1514 > > sprintf 6839 > > vsprintf 133 > > *ouch* :-) This means nothing out of context. I hope we don't go on a witch hunt. > > And these are the easy ones... > Indeed :-( Global search and replace of these can obfuscate code. Things must be looked for in context. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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