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

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From: jeremiah at nur.net (Jeremiah Cornelius)
Subject: Re: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows


> There is an updated whitepaper describing the changes of WinXP SP2 which
> describes the Execution Protection (NX) technology introduced in this sp
> (and also in the Service Pack 1 for Server 2003) at pages 43-47
> 
> Link:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bd948d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=en
> 
> 
So far, this breaks Winsock for Cygwin, and completely hoses MS's own SFU 3.5...

We'll see what Beta 2 does, but I bet it means re-engineering the network access in Cyg.
 
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