Re: udp vs. tcp

[by way of "Chris M. Lonvick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

"With syslog today, there is an arbitrary
limit of 1024 bytes in a syslog message."

I think this is due to the stack buffer array size in BSD syslogd, and the
limit is not actually checked anywhere (either client or server side) -
hence the buffer overflow attack vulnerability.

Alex