bugtraq - Re: Buffer overflow prevention

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Message-ID: <20030814202440.GA1465@openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:24:40 +0000
From: Miod Vallat <miod@...ine.fr>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Buffer overflow prevention

>   ProPolice is not magical, though. There are plenty of cases where it is
> totally inefficient. To illustrate a very common one :
> 
[snip oflow of 5-byte buffer]

This particular case ``works'' because, by design, propolice will not
attempt to protect structures smaller than 16 bytes.

This can be changed by a simple gcc recompilation... and it's probably
worth doing.

Miod