Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures (Linux Journal)
Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures (Linux Journal)
Posted Mar 10, 2003 22:22 UTC (Mon) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)Parent article: Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures (Linux Journal)
It's not a bad intro, but it omits a lot. For example, it omits ProPolice, which is like StackGuard but works for many systems (it's what OpenBSD is moving to). If you want more detail, see my document, Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO.