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Subject: Re: [9fans] on the topic of viruses
Date: Mon,  1 Oct 2001 09:55:58 +0000
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Bobby Dimmette wrote:
> From a security aspect, the we32000 was immune to stack-based buffer
> overflow attacks because the stack grew downward leaving the call/return
> structure unaffected.

It would have to grow *up*ward to prevent an overrun of a local
variable from affecting the previous call frame.