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Subject: ppp changes for buffer overflows going in
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:45:12 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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I'm about to commit a large number of changes to the user mode ppp.
Since they are all no brainers, and have been reviewed, I feel
reasonabily confident that things are OK.

However, I am unable to test ppp to my level of satisfaction easily,
since I don't have a ppp link to test it with.  I think these changes
will be good, but thought I'd give a heads up.

They are 2.2 candidates, but I'd like to have them be tested in
-current for as long as possible before committing to the 2.2 branch.

They fix an exploitable ppp buffer overflow problem that could be used
to break root.

Warner