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Re: PointGuard: It's not the Size of the Buffer, it's the Address of the Pointer
Aug 15 2003 08:02PM
Crispin Cowan (crispin immunix com)
Nicholas Weaver wrote:
>The most likely bypass will be when a program also has a "print a
>pointer" bug/feature.
>
That's true, but unintended "print a pointer" bugs become much more
scarce when composed with FormatGuard <http://immunix.org/formatguard.html>.
Crispin
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Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/
Chief Scientist, Immunix http://immunix.com
http://www.immunix.com/shop/
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>The most likely bypass will be when a program also has a "print a
>pointer" bug/feature.
>
That's true, but unintended "print a pointer" bugs become much more
scarce when composed with FormatGuard <http://immunix.org/formatguard.html>.
Crispin
--
Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/
Chief Scientist, Immunix http://immunix.com
http://www.immunix.com/shop/
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