On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:58:22PM +0000, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I can't speak for the MIT folk, BUT, FreeBSD has produced patches to the
> : telnetd in their "port" of MIT krb5 v1.2.2, and it applies cleanly to
> : plain MIT krb5 v1.2.2. So, unless MIT is working on a different angle
> : for solving the problem, I don't see why their patch should have to be
> : much different from the FreeBSD patch.
> :
>
> I think the patch that will be released will be fairly different
> from the FreeBSD patch. The FreeBSD patch has a couple of
> problems:
>
> . it doesn't handle the transmission of urgent data properly
Oh. Who needs that anyways :^)
> . it has the potential for stack overflows because of recursive
> calls between netflush() and output_data()
Yes, ick! But, that can only happen if telnetd is used with the -D
diagnostics option. That's not so bad...
> Give MIT a few days to do this right. You can use the FreeBSD patch
> in the meantime if you feel there is a significant need.
Will do.
> Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 8.0 Beta available
Nico
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