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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:59:14 +0100
From:      regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld)
To:        michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Increasing overall security....
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970212145914.regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970212103543.5799C-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>; from Michael Hancock on Feb 12, 1997 11:28:24 %2B0900
References:  <199702110604.WAA14933@dog.farm.org> <Pine.SV4.3.95.970212103543.5799C-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>

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Michael Hancock (michaelh) ecrit/writes:
> 
> 2) We don't know if it operates correctly.  Sendmail 8.8.5 has around 106
> strcpy's in it and we don't know what the patch's effect will be in a
> production environment. 

	107 explicit.  Until you check:

	#define newstr(s)    strcpy(xalloc(strlen(s) + 1), s)

	... of which there are _many_.

	Anyway sendmail has a category of its own:
	"Lots of bugs, lots of people looking at it".

-- 
							-- Phil

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