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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:26:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To:        ley@cert.dfn.de (Wolfgang Ley)
Cc:        craig@ProGroup.COM, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crontab security hole exploit
Message-ID:  <199612162327.SAA10241@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <199612161810.TAA03636@tiger.cert.dfn.de> from Wolfgang Ley at "Dec 16, 96 07:10:11 pm"

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Wolfgang Ley wrote:

| > 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

	I'll be egotistical and suggest my code review guidelines;
they talk about what to look for in a review, and how to write code
that will pass one.

	http://www.homeport.org/~adam/review.html

Adam

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume





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