Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:30:36 +0000 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: which stack direction? |
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On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:22:57PM -0600, Wayne Schlitt wrote:
> Hmmm... Wasn't this discussed recently here, with the conclusion that > having the stack grow up doesn't help much from buffer overruns? > > In order for a buffer overrun attack to work when the stack grows up, > you just have to scribble into a buffer of one of the calling > routines.
Even if it doesn't help against attacks, doesn't it make debugging perhaps a little easier, if you don't write crud over the backtrace?
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