On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Kees Cook wrote:
Hello!
Hello, and sorry for the delay in answering
Since sendmail handles untrusted inputs and listens on a network port, I think it might benefit from having hardening[1] enabled for its build. The attached patch implements this.
I agree, and in fact, most of those options are already in debian/rules
Thanks!
Thank you. I'm not overly fond of the way the harden-wrapper front-ends things, and may just add to the options I already have
-Kees [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening
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