Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:24:37 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, ports@freebsd.org, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Watch out for security on your machines and exploits! Message-ID: <20031204152437.GA84858@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031204152015.GF347@straylight.m.ringlet.net> References: <20031203234849.7238C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <20031204133520.A748@korben.in.tern> <20031204132303.GB347@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <20031204151013.GA80231@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031204152015.GF347@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
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--OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:20:15PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > It would be nice to also include the files/patch-util.c from my update > patch: rsync-2.5.7 artificially limits the size of a malloc'ed block > to 1G, which is fine on 32-bit machines, but might turn out to be > just that - an artificial limitation - on 64-bit ones. I don't think > it is strictly needed though - allocating more than 1G at a time strikes > me as more than a little scary, even for a FreeBSD mirror server :) >=20 > Thanks for taking care of this, though! Sorry, I didn't see your patch before I did the upgrade myself. I think I'll leave this to the maintainer to decide, since it's not relevant to the security patch. You already gave the fairly convincing argument of why this might be considered a feature anyway :-) Kris --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/z1G1Wry0BWjoQKURAslAAKC4O0tDJXjofrJhT07zWbm/pefGxACeP1aj K5obBmyMcjET/0jtNsnF754= =ukR5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--
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