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 -[ Philippe Regnauld / Systems Administrator / regnauld@prosa.dk ]- -[ Location.: +55.4N +11.3E PGP Key: finger regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk ]-
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