Bug#413940: Here is new suggested text for the strcpy manpage

2010-02-04 Thread Jason A. Spiro
FYI, I have now filed a kernel Bugzilla bug report[1] about the other most important manpages which should mention security but don't. ^ [1]. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15223 -- "Mention security in the manpages for strcat, scanf, and getopt" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Bug#413940: Here is new suggested text for the strcpy manpage

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Kerrisk
tags 413940 fixed-upstream thanks http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413940 > I suggest this new text for the bottom of the strcpy manpage: > > "Programs that use strcpy may allow malicious users to take complete > control of the machine by causing buffer overflows. Any time a prog