Bug in tcp wrappers?

[Mikko Työläjärvi]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:
>
>> The real fix involves rewriting chunks of the libwrap code, or finding
>> a version where someone has already done so.
>
> It doesn't seem like it should be too bad.  xgets is only called in three
> places.  It would be easy enough to replace it with something like glibc's
> getline(3), that uses realloc to size a buffer appropriately.

Yes, it should be pretty straightforward.

I just noticed that openbsd applied a (better) variant of my patch
for the infinite loop problem in 2003.  They didn't address the
"line too long" problem, though.

> If nobody else feels like doing this, maybe I will.

And if you don't, I just might :)

   /Mikko