Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:10:41 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libutil/MAXHOSTNAMELEN changes - plus a buffer overrun fix Message-ID: <200103092210.f29MAfI10984@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2001 22:06:20 GMT." <200103092206.f29M6Ku05464@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <200103092206.f29M6Ku05464@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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In message <200103092206.f29M6Ku05464@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : > 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. Generally yes, but in this case the case is unclear. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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