Re: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in telnet/tn3270.c (settranscom)

Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for the GNU Internet utilities
<[email protected]> writes:

> Thank you for review.  How did you build with TN3270 support?  Does
> anyone know of anyone building with -DTN3270?  I tried ./configure
> CFLAGS=-DTN3270 and it doesn't build for me.  Does it build on any
> reasonable platform?
>
> One approach here is to remove everything within '#ifdef TN3270' if this
> code is unmaintained, not working, and comes with security concerns.
>
> Would anyone mis the TN3270 functionality?  Is there any way we can test
> the functionality to gain confidence in it?

Sorry for not having the thread on hand, but I think I wanted to remove
it around a year ago, because I was not confident it would build
anywhere.

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