Re: Web sites compromised by IIS attack

[Maarten <fulldisc () ultratux org>]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 12:09, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:08:27 CDT, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>  said:
> > I attended a presentation yesterday for a security product in the
> > application firewall field.  During the presentation, the CISSP stated
> > that "in every 1000 lines of code there will be 15 errors".  I don't know
> > if I'd agree with that - I suspect most coders are a bit better than that
> > - but I had to chuckle, because, of course, I immediately thought, "So
> > you admit that your code is riddled with holes!"
>
> Actually, I suspect most coders are *worse* than that.
>
> Sendmail 8.13.0 weighs in at just about 90K lines of C code for
> the main program.  By that metric, there should only have been 135
> bugs in it. In fact, there are 441 occurrences of 'Problem noted by'
> in the release notes.

Except for the fact that your math is off; 15 times 90 equals 1350, not 135.
By that number, we'd have to assume that not even half of sendmails' bug are 
found as of yet, which imho is a little hard to believe.

just nitpicking, but...

Greetings,
Maarten

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