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

Justin Clift wrote:
> Only two things which have the potential to be worth waiting for, from
> what I'm aware of.  There may be others:
> 
>  - 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.

This is interesting.  He would have a month to do it.

>  - 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.
> 
> Of the two, Sir Mordred may or may not be willing, so that's kind of
> iffy, whereas the Windows Native port which is in beta testing isn't
> in too bad a state at all already.  Have been running preliminary
> multi-user AS3AP tests on it (with OSDB) and getting a significant
> performance throughput increase in comparison to the cygwin version.

OK, now I have to ask, where did this native Windows version come from? 
I don't know anything about it, except that Jan and SRA are both working
on versions.

The other issue is PITR, which I have been told today will not be ready
for a September 1 beta but may be ready for an October 1 beta.

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