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Message-ID: <20040223212523.19269128@nausicaa> 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040223/bd14551a/attachment.bin
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