Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 14:41:02 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <cy@cwsys.cwent.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Brian Tao <taob@risc.org>, pst@freebsd.org, FREEBSD-SECURITY-L <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Don't fulminate, be productive (was Re: Karl fulminates, film at 11. == thanks) Message-ID: <199702082241.OAA01047@cwsys.cwent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Feb 1997 09:50:59 PST." <7610.855424259@time.cdrom.com>
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> > What sort of requirements would you insist on for a code reviewer? > > I wouldn't mind poking around some code, but how much proficiency do > > you need? I can read/write C, but that's like saying "he understands > > English" and expecting the person to appreciate Shakespeare. I take > > I think just a simple & correct understanding of english is probably > more than sufficient for this. :-) > > > it there is more to this job than replacing all sprintf's with > > snprintf's? :) > > Actually, that's a good 50% of it. The other 50% is replacing > strcpy()'s with strncpy()'s. :-) > > Seriously, looking for bufffer overflows is not rocket science, though > if you spot more serious bugs along then way then you are more than free > to fix them. :-) > > I'm still waiting for Paul to give me us accumulated archive of volunteers > before kicking this off - we had a slight communications failure and > both ended up thinking that the other was keeping the master list. :) > > Jordan > I would like to help out. I am currently running a 2.1.6 system. Is that too old? Cy Schubert cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca cy@uumail.gov.bc.ca cys@mailhost.wlc.com
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