About four years ago, Microsoft decided to do something about its part of the problem, and added “secure” string handling functions to the C runtime library.

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Topic ===== A string handling bug in xinetd can potentially lead to a remote root exploit. A different buffer overflow exists in the logging code that can (!!) be remotely exploited. Problem ...