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Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 10:28AM
Eygene A. Ryabinkin (rea rea mbslab kiae ru) (7 replies)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 07:28PM
Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf coredump cx) (1 replies)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 14 2003 03:19PM
Sam Baskinger (sam reefedge com) (2 replies)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 14 2003 10:42PM
Crispin Cowan (crispin immunix com)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 14 2003 09:48PM
weigelt metux de
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:19:03AM -0400, Sam Baskinger wrote:

> It sounds like array bounds checking would offer an almost equivalent effect.
> This would not stop mis-casting a struct and referencing out of it or similar
> casting+address calcuation errors. To prevent that you would need either a
> language that prevented the production of that sort of code or to solve the
> halting problem.

once you have such an language, you also can use an garbage collector
and so throw away an wide field of problems.

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Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 07:13PM
Nicholas Weaver (nweaver CS berkeley edu) (1 replies)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 07:23PM
weigelt metux de (1 replies)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 09:26PM
Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf coredump cx)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 06:40PM
Craig Pratt (craig strong-box net)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 06:26PM
Jonathan A. Zdziarski (jonathan networkdweebs com) (1 replies)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 11:03PM
Andreas Beck (becka uni-duesseldorf de)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 06:20PM
Patrick Dolan (dolan cc admin unt edu) (2 replies)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 14 2003 09:44AM
Mariusz Woloszyn (emsi ipartners pl)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 11:33PM
Crispin Cowan (crispin immunix com) (1 replies)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 15 2003 08:32AM
Peter Busser (peter trusteddebian org)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 06:18PM
Jingmin (Jimmy) Zhou (jimmy mtc dhs org)
Re: Buffer overflow prevention Aug 13 2003 06:12PM
Crispin Cowan (crispin immunix com)


 

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