1995-09-22 - Defense against a class of programming bugs

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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-09-22 17:04:27 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 10:04:27 PDT

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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 10:04:27 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Defense against a class of programming bugs
Message-ID: <9509221703.AA22917@sulphur.osf.org>
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In light of the continuing vulnerability to long user input, I humbly
offer the following aphorism, suitable for display on all Netscape
programmer cubicles:
	Copy strings with strdup, not strcpy.

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