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Patches pose significant risk, researchers say
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-04-23

A group of four computer scientists urged Microsoft to redesign the way it distributes patches, after they created a technique that automatically produces attack code by comparing the vulnerable and repaired versions of a program.

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Patches pose significant risk, researchers say 2008-04-24
Anonymous
This research is good research, though I'm skeptical that the techniques are going to be generally applicable. Finding the exploitable function is usually the easy part. How to get the data there is the hard part. However, the credibility of the paper is called into question with the implication ...

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