Bug#345736: libsafe 2.0-16-6 do not stop half of its own example exploits

Package: libsafe Version: 2.0-16-6 Severity: serious Libsafe 2.0-16-6 seem to not stop it's own, attached to sources, example exploits, which would make it quite useless if confirmed. That would mean that it gives false feeling of security (in matter of strcmp and related functions

Bug#345736: libsafe 2.0-16-6 do not stop half of its own example exploits

Thanks for your very valid comments. Libsafe is probably obsolete. It doesn't work the way it was designed, because of some not-very-recent changes to glibc, and libsafe is no longer maintained upstream. See the other serious bugs against libsafe (http://bugs.debian.org/libsafe) for more

Bug#345736: libsafe 2.0-16-6 do not stop half of its own example exploits

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Coe wrote: | Thanks for your very valid comments. | Libsafe is probably obsolete. It doesn't work the way it was | designed, because of some not-very-recent changes to glibc, and | libsafe is no longer maintained upstream. Would it be then