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Secure programmer: Countering buffer overflows (IBM developerWorks)
David A. Wheeler
explores buffer overflow vulnerabilities in C and C++ programs.
"This article discusses the top vulnerability in Linux/UNIX systems: buffer overflows. This article first explains what buffer overflows are and why they're both so common and so dangerous. It then discusses the new Linux and UNIX methods for broadly countering them -- and why these methods are not enough."
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