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[src/netbsd-1-5]: src/distrib/notes/common Pullup 1.93 [hubertf]:
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/d0ced33d179b
branches: netbsd-1-5
changeset: 490231:d0ced33d179b
user: tv <tv%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Tue Nov 14 16:08:15 2000 +0000
description:
Pullup 1.93 [hubertf]:
Mention other audit for string routines that were used without bound checking
diffstat:
distrib/notes/common/main | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diffs (20 lines):
diff -r 94c9a9acabde -r d0ced33d179b distrib/notes/common/main
--- a/distrib/notes/common/main Tue Nov 14 16:07:23 2000 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/common/main Tue Nov 14 16:08:15 2000 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.61.2.8 2000/11/14 03:39:41 tv Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.61.2.9 2000/11/14 16:08:15 tv Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -266,7 +266,9 @@
Disable various services by default, and set the default options for
disabled daemons to a higher level of logging.
.It
-Several code audits were performed, the last one identifying and disabling
+Several code audits were performed. One audit replaced
+string routines that were used without bound checking, and another
+one to identify and disable
places where format strings were used in an
unsafe way, allowing arbitrary data enterred by (possibly) mallicious
users to overwrite application code, and leading from Denial of
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