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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:55:21 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        imp@village.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@haywire.dialix.com
Subject:   Re: (fwd) CERT Advisory CA-95:13 - Syslog Vulnerability (with sendmail workaround)
Message-ID:  <199510240755.RAA04475@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Our current patch won't work in a  pre-4.4BSD system (because of fwopen and
>friends that are only on FreeBSD 2.x). For  1.1.5.1 systems, you should try

fwopen() has been in FreeBSD since prehistoric times.  It is a fundamental
part of the stdio implementation that i/o is done through functions that
happen to be read/write in the usual case.

Bruce



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