Re: Secure Linux From Scratch

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Christos Gioran wrote:
> 
> I hope I will get around it soon. Also, I checked out libformat but
> did not use it, since after a (quick) look through the code I noticed
> some not very security-consious function selection, such as strcpy()
> and little error handling.

If you're worried about strcpy in libformat, try grepping the sources in
a vanilla LFS. You will find it in many places as well as other older
functions that should have been deprecated and unsupported for a long
time now.

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start thinking he knows what's right for you.

- Paul Williams, `Das Energi'

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