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From: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net>
To: matthew@netsol.net
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Subject: Re: stack overflow and security
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> can any one help to explain how stack over security exploit. does
> anyone know how to fix it? How it happens?

http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/immunix/StackGuard/usenixsc98_html/paper.html

The above USENIX paper talks about them, and two ways of protecting
against them.

--Mark
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