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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:10:11 +0100 (MET)
From:      Wolfgang Ley <ley@cert.dfn.de>
To:        craig@ProGroup.COM (Craig Shaver)
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crontab security hole exploit
Message-ID:  <199612161810.TAA03636@tiger.cert.dfn.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612161654.IAA19864@seabass.progroup.com> from "Craig Shaver" at Dec 16, 96 08:54:26 am

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Craig Shaver wrote:
>
[...]
> It certainly helps me understand what is really going on.  I can learn from
> this to code defensively.
>
> Is there someplace or some book that someone who is writing new software can
> refer to for learning how to write secure code in the first place?  I
> certainly don't want to ask some whiny security cop for each and every
> little detail.... :)

You might want to check the the "Secure Programming Checklist" which is
a collection of the suggestions from the "Practical UNIX and Internet
Security" book and a paper from AUSCERT.

ftp://ftp.auscert.org.au/pub/auscert/papers/secure_programming_checklist
...or any mirror

Bye,
  Wolfgang.
- --
Wolfgang Ley, DFN-CERT, Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30, 22527 Hamburg,    Germany
Email: ley@cert.dfn.de   Phone: +49 40 5494-2262 Fax: +49 40 5494-2241
PGP-Key available via finger ley@ftp.cert.dfn.de any key-server or via
WWW from http://www.cert.dfn.de/~ley/               ...have a nice day

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