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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!purplet!jaggy
- Subject: Re: PATCH: procps - avoid buffer overruns
- Organization: FidoNet node 2:252/305 - The Purple Tentacle, Reading
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:19:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <33.2B50D630@purplet.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- * In message <1993Jan9.070311.26248@news.stolaf.edu>,
- Michael K. Johnson said:
-
- MJ> This patch is to an old procps. The new procps fixes this
- MJ> bug, as well as several others.
-
- Guess I must have missed an announcment somewhere along the line then...
-
- MJ> Before posting patches like this, it would be
- MJ> nice to offer them to the author,
-
- I did :-). I never claimed it was an official patch. Just something that
- stops annoying core dumps...
-
- MJ> and to check the ftp site (hint hint hint).
-
- Well, I picked the archive I have up from tsx-11 on 1st Jan and it's 9601
- bytes long. After your mail to me I looked on tsx-11 again. The procps.tar.Z
- in BETA/procps is dated 29th Dec and is 9601 bytes long. What am I missing?
-
- Incidentally, I seem to remember that you said the problem wouldn't exist
- in the new version because the buffer used was the same size as a kernel
- page. Can you guarantee that the maximum length of the argument line will
- always be limited like this? Surely it would be better to limit the length
- of the copy to the size of buffer we are copying to? What? Me? Trust? Nah...
-
- Mike
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