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List:       bugtraq
Subject:    cvs commit: ports/mail/pine4 Makefile (fwd)
From:       Kris Kennaway <kris () FREEBSD ! ORG>
Date:       2000-09-29 7:33:31
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It almost killed me to see this:

mollari# find pine4.21 -type f | xargs egrep '(sprintf|strcpy|strcat)' | wc -l
    4299

Don't use pine - I don't believe it is practical to make it secure. :-(

Kris

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:28:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: cvs commit: ports/mail/pine4 Makefile

kris        2000/09/29 00:28:48 PDT

  Modified files:
    mail/pine4           Makefile
  Log:
  Mark FORBIDDEN: known buffer overflows exploitable by remote email.

  Parenthetically, no software which uses 4299 sprintf/strcpy/strcat
  calls can possibly be safe - I don't expect to remove this FORBIDDEN
  tag any time soon. :-(

  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.43      +3 -1      ports/mail/pine4/Makefile

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