expand_path() removal

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Fri Feb 14 18:57:43 CET 2003


Hi all,

FYI, I've removed expand_path() from both xfrun and libxfcegui4 because:

1) It's insecure to use "~" in PATH
2) the routine itself is insecure because it's using fixed string length
and did not take care of checking bounds.

Cheers,
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
http://www.xfce.org




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