Messages in this thread | | | From | "Sarah Addams" <> | Subject | Linux Buffer Overflow Security Exploits | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:07:32 -0000 |
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<META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Excuse my ignorance, but would someone explain to me why Linux and other Unices are vulnerable to buffer overflow exploits? I suspect it's because the code, data and stack for a given process is kept in a single memory segment, but I'm not at all sure about that. If however, I'm right, would Linux Alpha, running on a Harvard architecture 21164, be immune from this weakness?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>TIA</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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