[31225] in bugtraq
Re: PointGuard: It's not the Size of the Buffer, it's the Address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crispin Cowan)
Fri Aug 15 16:19:03 2003
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:02:12 -0700
From: Crispin Cowan <crispin@immunix.com>
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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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