Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: Buffer overflow in

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Justin Clift wrote:

>  - Find out from Sir Mordred if he wants to take a look at the CVS
>    version of code and audit in that for a bit, Just In Case he turns
>    up something that's serious and requires substantial re-work.
>    Although it means he wouldn't have a bunch of "I found this existing
>    exploit" type releases, we could instead offer him credit on the
>    press release along the lines of "This released has been audited for
>    security flaws in its code by Sir Mordred".  Am pretty sure he'd
>    do a very thorough job for that, as it means he'd have an official
>    "product reputation" he'd need to stand by for it.

"Security Relatd Fixed" are applicable for adoption during the beta
period, leading up to release ...

>  - Patches to the CVS tree which let us have a truly native windows
>    version.  This is of huge significance and would *very* much improve
>    our growth and adoption by being in this release in comparison to
>    being in the release afterwards.  Not in an airy fairy way, but
>    quite definitely and solidly.

If they aren't in by now, they should wait until the next dev cycle ...
unless they are *small* changes ...