bugtraq - Re: PointGuard: It's not the Size of the Buffer, it's the Address of the Pointer

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Message-ID: <3F3D3C44.8010501@immunix.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:02:12 -0700
From: Crispin Cowan <crispin@...unix.com>
To: Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@...berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: PointGuard: It's not the Size of the Buffer, it's the Address
 of the Pointer


Nicholas Weaver wrote:

>The most likely bypass will be when a program also has a "print a
>pointer" bug/feature.  
>
That's true, but unintended "print a pointer" bugs become much more 
scarce when composed with FormatGuard <http://immunix.org/formatguard.html>.

Crispin

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