buffer overflow

[Furmanek, Greg]

http://mercury.chem.pitt.edu/~tiho/LinuxFocus/English/May2001/article190.sht
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here you go this should be what you are looking for.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucas Vogel [mailto:lvogel@exponent.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:30 AM
> To: Plug-Devel (E-mail)
> Subject: buffer overflow
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> ===========================================
> Lucas Vogel
> Technology Development Practice
> Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc.
> http://www.fail.com
> ===========================================
> 
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