From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 30 14:45:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D209014DCC for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00952; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:45:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA32988; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:44:03 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199906302144.PAA32988@harmony.village.org> To: John Polstra Subject: Re: tcpdump(1) additions. Cc: mph@astro.caltech.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:26:17 PDT." <199906301826.LAA07099@vashon.polstra.com> References: <199906301826.LAA07099@vashon.polstra.com> <19990630011532.A97926@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:44:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199906301826.LAA07099@vashon.polstra.com> John Polstra writes: : I would say it is not _acceptable_. The code shouldn't go into our : source tree until the known buffer overflow problems have been fixed. : It's just stupid to add buffer overflow problems to a program that is : always run as root. With my security officer hat on, I would *VETO* inclusion of any buffer overflows that have been pointed out and that the author has been too stuborn to fix. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message