On Thursday 15 March 2007 16:18:18 Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:16:41PM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 March 2007 04:26:29 James Matthews wrote:
> > > and you would think some bugs we got rid of in open source software!
> >
> > str{cpy,cat,...} which don't take an size attribute should be removed
> > from standard libc, I don't see why people still insist on using this
> > insecure variants.
>
> Thanks to _FORTIFY_SOURCE strcpy and strcat to fixed size buffers are
> at least protected now.Yep, I hope more projects will integrate _FORTIFY_SOURCE into their build cycle where supported by glibc. Regards. -- Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. (Ernest Hemingway) Ismail Donmez ismail (at) pardus.org.tr GPG Fingerprint: 7ACD 5836 7827 5598 D721 DF0D 1A9D 257A 5B88 F54C Pardus Linux / KDE developer _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
