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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 1995 20:31:11 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@elite.net>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: statustatus of syslog patch? 
Message-ID:  <199510200331.UAA02698@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 95 20:07:34 PDT." <199510200307.UAA15977@elite.net> 

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>What is the status of the patch for the buffer overflow in syslog()?
>I checked FreeBSD-current as of 10/19 and the sccs id still says:
>"@(#)syslog.c    8.4 (Berkeley) 3/18/94"

   It'll say that until the end of time...that's Berkeley's ID. Our ID's are
in the form of "$Id: <blah blah> $"...we use cvs/RCS (not SCCS). Not all of
our source files have $Id$'s in them; we haven't gotten around to adding them
yet.

>Does anyone plan to integrate it into the source tree?  If not, can someone
>please send me a copy of syslog.c that safely and intelligently uses
>snprintf to limit buffer overflows?

   It has already been integrated.

-DG



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