33-Year-Old Unix Bug Fixed In OpenBSD

Courtesy Topix - Unix  Tue, 07/08/2008 - 21:21

Ste sends along the cheery little story of Otto Moerbeek, one of the OpenBSD developers, who recently found and fixed a 33-year-old buffer overflow bug in Yacc.


 

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33-Year-Old Unix Bug Fixed In OpenBSD
Ste sends along the cheery little story of Otto Moerbeek, one of the OpenBSD developers, who recently found and fixed a 33-year-old buffer overflow...

RE[3]: Not 'UNIX' bug
Yeeesss...and? 4.2BSD isn't UNIX either: it just has slightly more SysV derived code in it than 4.4Lite. The current modern BSDs don't derive from...

RE[2]: Not 'UNIX' bug
Sure, but it's not called Berkeley UNIX, the 4.4Lite sources specifically are not derived from any of the AT&T UNIX sources and you wont find the...


 

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