full-disclosure - Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows

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From: ralf at camperquake.de (Ralf Ertzinger)
Subject: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows

Hi.

"Richard M. Smith" <rms@...puterbytesman.com> wrote:

> AMD's Athlon-64 (for PCs) and Opteron (for servers) will protect against
> buffer overflows when used with a new version of Windows XP. Intel plans
> similar features on next generation Pentium chips.

If I'm not mistaken, this is just about AMD (and Intel) introducing a real
"no execute" flag to memory page properties, like Sparc (and others)
already have.

Certainly not a bad move, but buffer overflows exist on Sparc, too,
don't they?

-- 
Smile, and everyone will wonder what you're up to.
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