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String Cleanup Results On OpenBSD

Posted by timothy on from the theo-apologizes-for-a-pun dept.

Dan writes "OpenBSD's Theo De Raadt provides an update on his team's efforts to remove potential buffer overflows within OpenBSD code by always calculating what the bounds of an operation are. They have been going through the source tree cleaning out all calls to sprintf(), strcpy(), and strcat(). Theo says that they have removed (replaced) approximately 2000 occurences of these functions." (The same buffer overrun-squashing effort was mentioned earlier this month.)

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  1. But isn't *BSD dying? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sorry -- couldn't resist. :)

    1. Re:But isn't *BSD dying? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      People always misinterpret that:

      *BSD is not dying, *BSD does not give a fuck about the Stupid Common User M.

      <SCUM> HI!!!11oneone
      <SCUM> Help me or I switch back to windows
      <Daemon> Get lost.