On 29/03/14 22:27, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> El 29/03/14 05:13, Samuli Suominen escribió:
>> I took the liberty to unbreak the tree for you. Don't ever touch my
>> packages again unless
>> they are broken.
> Udev is broken:
> * They have known off by one string handling errors on their libraries,
> the developers were warned of that but have chosen to ignore the issue.
> The issue is still on
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/shared/strxcpyx.c
> on the function size_t strpcpyf(char **dest, size_t size, const char
> *src, ...) which can overflow the string boundaries in some case. This
> issue keeps coming up from time to time thanks to their "nice" efforts
> for cahnging the whole thing instead of fixing bugs. Also after a year
> nothing has been done.
> * They keep losing cohesion
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion_%28computer_science%29) by
> inserting more and more unrelated software into Udev/systemd. This helps
> things like the above happen again.
> * They have the bad habit of recoding functions that are already
> provided by their only supported c library. This helps things like the
> above happen.ç
> * They keep reengineering everything reintroducing bugs that were fixed
> on previous iterations.
>
> Thus given the potential security issues udev (and systemd) have, the
> poor design decissions, and the lack of interest in their maintainers of
> fixing these, I'd strongly recommend masking it as was done with packets
> like wordpress or at least putting a big warning to the users.
>

You are confusing the mailing list with bugzilla.   Enough said.

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