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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:58:11 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Importing lukemftpd
Message-ID:  <20010719155811.C90326@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010719123119.B44746@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:31:20PM -0700
References:  <XFMail.20010716212454.mheffner@novacoxmail.com> <20010717103604.B79329@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010719112221.A84356@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010719123119.B44746@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:31:20PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:22:21AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > Index: Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/ftp/Makefile,v
> 
> BTW, feel free to commit the ftp client whenever you feel like it,
> since there aren't serious security issues at stake there.

There aren't??  I am downloading data from a possibly hostile site.
They could easily try to buffer overflow the client.  Just as much a
possible security vulnerability as we saw the the buffer overflows in
fetchmail.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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