Re: Linux Buffer Overflow Security Exploits

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:09:59 +0000 (GMT)


> 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 like basically all computers you don't have hardware type and
size tags on all pointers. There are approaches to reduce the probability
of that error but reading and checking code is the most productive. Logic
errors tend to be as big a problem

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