From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 12 06:00:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA29465 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 06:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from deepo.prosa.dk ([193.89.187.27]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA29460 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 06:00:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.4/prosa-1.1) id OAA01397; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:59:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: 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.... References: <199702110604.WAA14933@dog.farm.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A i386 In-Reply-To: ; from Michael Hancock on Feb 12, 1997 11:28:24 +0900 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ]-