Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:06:50 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Removing file(1)+libmagic(3) from the base system Message-ID: <465482BA.4050607@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200705231753.l4NHrTEm025055@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <200705231753.l4NHrTEm025055@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/46546E16.9070707@freebsd.org> you write: >> FreeBSD architects and file(1) maintainer, >> 3. Due to its nature as a program which parses multiple data formats, it >> poses an unusually high risk of having security problems in the future >> (cf. ethereal/wireshark). > > And this doesn't apply to, say, awk(1)? Eh? Unless I'm seriously confused, awk doesn't parse any data formats... Colin Percival
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