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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by xorcist on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:25AM (#25926453)
> people who stubbornly refuse to practice even the most basic good engineering practices, like testing and code review

That is not fair. This software is maintained by Todd Miller, the well known OpenBSD developer, and has both tests and certainly discusses code proposals. Not everyone has to use github or the language de jour to be useful.

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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by srfilipek on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:35AM (#25928041)
> This software is maintained by Todd Miller, the well known OpenBSD developer

Ironic that OpenBSD dropped sudo in favor of a much simpler utility.

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