Re: How to write a secure C program..

To: "SDiZ Cheng" <sdiz@uhome.net>
Cc: <debian-security@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: How to write a secure C program..
From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: 05 Jul 2001 16:37:00 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 01d501c103a5$bbe7c3a0$0300a8c0@linux> ("SDiZ Cheng"'s message of "Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:51:29 +0800")
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"SDiZ Cheng" <sdiz@uhome.net> writes:

> Are there any known buffer overflow problem in perl functions?

Perl inherits some problems of the hosting environment, for example
buffer overflows in syslog().

Apart from that, there are no known buffer overflow issues, but code
injection attacks are still possible with improperly written code.

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