Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:39:53 +1100 (EST) From: proff@suburbia.net To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increasing overall security.... Message-ID: <19970212213953.14194.qmail@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970212145914.regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> from Philippe Regnauld at "Feb 12, 97 02:59:14 pm"
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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_. And of which none can ever fail. -- Prof. Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks proff@iq.org |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery
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