Re: Buffer overflow prevention

From: Miod Vallat (miodat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 13:24:40 PDT

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    >   ProPolice is not magical, though. There are plenty of cases where it is
    > totally inefficient. To illustrate a very common one :
    > 
    [snip oflow of 5-byte buffer]
    
    This particular case ``works'' because, by design, propolice will not
    attempt to protect structures smaller than 16 bytes.
    
    This can be changed by a simple gcc recompilation... and it's probably
    worth doing.
    
    Miod
    



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