[9379] in bugtraq
Re: Buffer overflow and OS/390
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Seibert)
Fri Feb 5 12:25:59 1999
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:22:10 +0100
Reply-To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@POLDER.UBC.KUN.NL>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@POLDER.UBC.KUN.NL>
X-To: crispin@CSE.OGI.EDU
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Crispin Cowan <crispin@CSE.OGI.EDU> wrote:
>When I was at the Oakland Security Conference last year (IEEE Symp. on
>Security and Privacy) I made the error of crediting R.T. Morris with inventing
>buffer overflows in front of some old timers. They pointed out to me that
>there are buffer overflow exploits going back to the 1960's. The example
>given was an OS/360 problem.
Legendary are the stories about FORTRAN programs using negative array
offsets to fix operating system bugs...
>Crispin
-Olaf.
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