From owner-freebsd-audit Fri Mar 9 14:10:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F363937B718; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:10:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f29MAfI10984; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:10:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200103092210.f29MAfI10984@harmony.village.org> To: Brian Somers Subject: Re: libutil/MAXHOSTNAMELEN changes - plus a buffer overrun fix Cc: freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@FreeBSD.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> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:10:41 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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