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Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:33:21 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtol.3 strtol.c strtoll.c strtoq.c strtoul.3 strtoul.c strtoull.c strtouq.c
Message-ID:  <20010904233320.A34429@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20010904122843.A56085@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200109041639.f84GdBm87501@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010904204454.A32114@nagual.pp.ru> <p05100307b7bab7186d08@[10.1.10.118]> <200109041705.f84H5W692572@earth.backplane.com> <20010904122843.A56085@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:28:43 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Having rcsid[] visible in source files is very useful from my point of
> view in determining whether a binary is vulnerable to a security

There is no such strings in binary due to shared linkage in most cases.

> vulnerability.  If we have rcsids in everything (especially
> libraries), then it would be trivial to write scanning software which

For released versions library major is enough to determine functions
present there.

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Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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