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Re: Smashing the Stack: prevention?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Ptacek)
Mon Apr 28 03:00:24 1997

Date: 	Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:42:03 -0500
Reply-To: tqbf@enteract.com
From: "Thomas H. Ptacek" <tqbf@ENTERACT.COM>
X-To:         nate@MILLCOMM.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.970427164308.1982A-100000@amebix.monolith.org>
              from "nate" at Apr 27, 97 08:31:55 pm

> 1.  'you gotta change the code'

These are just plugs in the bursting dike. The problem is not that
privileged code is insecure. The problem is that there is too much
privileged code.

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Thomas Ptacek at EnterAct, L.L.C., Chicago, IL [tqbf@enteract.com]
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