From: "Lukas Sandström" <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
To: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Buffer overflows
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:26:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D727E6.1060006@etek.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188502009.29782.874.camel@hurina>
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Attached once again beginnings of safer string handling functions, which
> should be easy to use to replace the existing string handling code. I
> even thought about creating some kind of an automated tool to do this,
> but that's a bit too much trouble with no gain for myself.
How about using an existing string handling library instead of
creating another one from scratch?
One library worth looking at might be "The Better String Library"[1].
It claims to be both portable, stable, secure and have high performance.
/Lukas
[1] http://bstring.sourceforge.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 19:26 Buffer overflows Timo Sirainen
2007-08-30 20:26 ` Lukas Sandström [this message]
2007-08-30 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-30 21:08 ` Timo Sirainen
2007-08-30 21:35 ` Reece Dunn
2007-08-30 21:51 ` Timo Sirainen
2007-08-30 22:34 ` Reece Dunn
2007-08-31 10:52 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-08-31 12:48 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-30 22:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-30 22:36 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-08-30 22:41 ` Timo Sirainen
2007-09-02 13:42 ` Johan Herland
2007-09-02 15:11 ` Reece Dunn
2007-09-02 15:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-02 15:35 ` Reece Dunn
2007-09-03 0:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-09-03 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-02 17:17 ` René Scharfe
2007-09-02 17:39 ` Lukas Sandström
2007-08-31 4:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-31 5:00 ` Timo Sirainen
2007-08-31 9:53 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-08-31 10:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-30 21:48 ` [PATCH] Temporary fix for stack smashing in mailinfo Alex Riesen
2007-08-30 22:53 ` Junio C Hamano
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