In message <20190711014729.gb23...@freebsd.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev 
writes:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 05:42:04PM +0000, Philip Paeps wrote:
> > New Revision: 349890
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/349890
> > 
> > Log:
> >   telnet: fix a couple of snprintf() buffer overflows
> >   
> > Modified: head/contrib/telnet/telnet/commands.c
> > @@ -1655,10 +1655,11 @@ env_init(void)
> >             char hbuf[256+1];
> >             char *cp2 = strchr((char *)ep->value, ':');
> >  
> > -           gethostname(hbuf, 256);
> > -           hbuf[256] = '\0';
> > -           cp = (char *)malloc(strlen(hbuf) + strlen(cp2) + 1);
> > -           sprintf((char *)cp, "%s%s", hbuf, cp2);
>
> Would it make sense to add something like __attribute__ ((deprecated))
> to those unsafe functions like gets(), sprintf(), etc.?  Or it would
> cause too much PITA?

sprintf() is not deprecated (https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/io/fprintf)
. gets() is removed in C11 (https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/io/gets), 
replaced by gets_s().

We already have gets_s(). We need printf_s(), sprintf_s() and 
snprintf_s().


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <c...@freebsd.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org

        The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.


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