From owner-freebsd-audit Fri Mar 9 14: 3:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6323B37B718; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:03:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f29M59C88934; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 22:05:09 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f29M6Ku05464; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 22:06:20 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200103092206.f29M6Ku05464@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: libutil/MAXHOSTNAMELEN changes - plus a buffer overrun fix In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh of "Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:45:44 MST." <200103092145.f29LjiI10850@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 22:06:20 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <200103092138.f29Lc8I10799@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: > : : Eivind has some patches in the pipeline here to return errors rather > : : than truncating host names, so it was his work that found the actual > : : overrun.... I figured I'd commit this and possibly ask for an MFC > : : RSN so that we get this fixed for the -stable release. > > On second thought, I don't think we want to rush these into -stable. I figured a buffer overrun was grounds to ``rush'', but if the concensus is not to, that's ok. After all, it is a *read* overrun that isn't really going to do any harm. > Warner -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message