Re: SECURITY: bug in Berkeley DB on some systems (eg. Solaris <= 2.5) [#375]

[Sleepycat Software <db abyssinian sleepycat com>]

> The problem isn't really in berkeley DB per se, it's that the program
> linking with berkeley db gets a broken snprintf because berkeley DB comes
> first on the link line.

As you say, it is not our intent to export a snprintf() routine,
especially to packages that have better solutions!  The next
release of Berkeley DB will rename its internal snprintf() so
that this does not happen.

Regards,
--keith

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