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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:28:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020718122844.M14964@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020718121930.K14964@cackle.proxima.alt.za>; from Lucio De Re on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:19:31PM +0200

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:19:31PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> > 
> > How is that a security problem?  The stack is accessible only
> > under program control, and a programmer can do whatever he
> > wants anyway.
> 
> The usual buffer overflow problem: override the stack limits, wreck
> the return address, execute the remainder (by returning to it).
> 
I neglected to mention that locking the stack against execution is a
way of locking the barn door, programmers _ought_ to know better, but
the tools to _do_ better haven't been available until recently.

One wonders if one should be grateful for script kiddies :-)

++L


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-18 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-16 14:12 Sam
2002-07-16 16:30 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-07-17 12:49 ` Ian Broster
2002-07-17 12:12   ` Sam
2002-07-17 13:33     ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-17 16:12       ` Fariborz (Skip) Tavakkolian
2002-07-17 22:21         ` arisawa
2002-07-17 22:28           ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-07-18  9:51           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 10:19             ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 10:28               ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2002-07-18 14:50                 ` Mike Haertel
2002-07-18 14:56                   ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-19  5:23                   ` arisawa
2002-07-18 14:21               ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 14:55                 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-16 15:53 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:05 ` Sam
2002-07-16 21:29   ` Steve Kilbane
2002-07-16 16:08 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:31 ` Sam
2002-07-16 16:50 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:59 ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:04   ` Howard Trickey
2002-07-16 16:20     ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:01 forsyth
2002-07-17  8:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-16 17:31 presotto
2002-07-17  8:58 ` William Josephson
2002-07-17  8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-17 13:36 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-18 12:54 Richard Miller
2002-07-18 15:02 forsyth
2002-07-18 23:57 ` arisawa
2002-07-29 15:59   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 19:24 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19  4:22 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-19  0:52 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 12:53 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 15:41   ` Mike Haertel
2002-07-19 18:09     ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 18:38       ` Scott Schwartz
2002-07-19 19:07         ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-29 16:01     ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-07-19  6:48 forsyth
2002-07-19 15:45 forsyth
2002-07-19 18:19 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 18:22 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 18:36 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 18:33 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 18:35 forsyth
2002-07-20  5:59 forsyth

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