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Date:      Thu, 5 May 2005 20:22:02 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c subr_rman.c vfs_subr.c src/sys/net if_mib.c src/sys/netinet ip_divert.c raw_ip.c udp_usrreq.c
Message-ID:  <20050506032202.GC2670@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <200505060248.j462mL0k009905@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200505060248.j462mL0k009905@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Colin Percival wrote this message on Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:48 +0000:
> cperciva    2005-05-06 02:48:21 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             subr_bus.c subr_rman.c vfs_subr.c 
>     sys/net              if_mib.c 
>     sys/netinet          ip_divert.c raw_ip.c udp_usrreq.c 
>   Log:
>   If we are going to
>   1. Copy a NULL-terminated string into a fixed-length buffer, and
>   2. copyout that buffer to userland,
>   we really ought to
>   0. Zero the entire buffer
>   first.
>   
>   Security: FreeBSD-SA-05:08.kmem

/me notes this is a good reason to use strncpy instead of strlcpy.

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