Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:44:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: mph@astro.caltech.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpdump(1) additions. Message-ID: <199906302144.PAA32988@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:26:17 PDT." <199906301826.LAA07099@vashon.polstra.com> References: <199906301826.LAA07099@vashon.polstra.com> <19990630011532.A97926@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990630055143.23532N-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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In message <199906301826.LAA07099@vashon.polstra.com> John Polstra writes: : I would say it is not _acceptable_. The code shouldn't go into our : source tree until the known buffer overflow problems have been fixed. : It's just stupid to add buffer overflow problems to a program that is : always run as root. With my security officer hat on, I would *VETO* inclusion of any buffer overflows that have been pointed out and that the author has been too stuborn to fix. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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