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[src/trunk]: src/distrib/notes/common Mention other audit for string routines...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/7a9c9578fac9
branches:  trunk
changeset: 499186:7a9c9578fac9
user:      hubertf <hubertf%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Nov 14 07:26:37 2000 +0000

description:
Mention other audit for string routines that were used without bound checking

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/common/main |  6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diffs (20 lines):

diff -r e1577337782a -r 7a9c9578fac9 distrib/notes/common/main
--- a/distrib/notes/common/main Tue Nov 14 07:13:02 2000 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/common/main Tue Nov 14 07:26:37 2000 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: main,v 1.92 2000/11/13 23:01:36 hubertf Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: main,v 1.93 2000/11/14 07:26:37 hubertf Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -266,7 +266,9 @@
 Disable various services by default, and set the default options for
 disabled daemons to a higher level of logging.
 .It 
-Several code audits were performed, the last one identifying and disabling 
+Several code audits were performed. One audit replaced 
+string routines that were used without bound checking, and another 
+one to identify and disable
 places where format strings were used in an
 unsafe way, allowing arbitrary data enterred by (possibly) mallicious
 users to overwrite application code, and leading from Denial of



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