From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 12 13:40:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA27662 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA27657 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:40:54 -0800 (PST) From: proff@suburbia.net Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA27466 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:42:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14196 invoked by uid 110); 12 Feb 1997 21:39:54 -0000 Message-ID: <19970212213953.14194.qmail@suburbia.net> Subject: Re: Increasing overall security.... In-Reply-To: from Philippe Regnauld at "Feb 12, 97 02:59:14 pm" To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:39:53 +1100 (EST) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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_. 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