buffer overflow

[Lucas Vogel]

It seems as though every time I look at my favorite distribution's website
(SuSE, in case you were curious) for software updates, there are a number of
different security updates due to some kind of buffer overflow situation in
one piece of software or another. Would someone care to go over buffer
overflows, how they are exploited and good preventative programming
practices?

Thanks

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Lucas Vogel
Technology Development Practice
Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc.
http://www.fail.com
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