Darren Reed wrote: > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > >>On 03/18/2006 05:07 PM, Darren Reed wrote: >> >>>This release of IPFilter comes after the code base has been covered >>>by Coverity scans via both FreeBSD and NetBSD. This picked up a whole >>>range of "bugs", some of which were quite deliberate choices at the >>>time - like not free'ing up malloc'd space when returning from a >>>function in a program that runs and exist. Anyhow, the good news >>>is that the code has been through that already. >> >>Darren, >> >>Question more about Coverity than about IP Filter: did Coverity turn up >>any genuine security issues? > > > No. > > The worst is there are some race conditions in boundary > cases for SMP machines that could make it leak memory.
Wow, for the size of the codebase, and the number of OS's and architectures it runs on, that's something to be really proud of! -- Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess
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