Re: Buffer overflow and OS/390

[rhialto () POLDER UBC KUN NL (Olaf Seibert)]

Crispin Cowan <crispin () CSE OGI EDU> wrote:
> When I was at the Oakland Security Conference last year (IEEE Symp. on
> Security and Privacy) I made the error of crediting R.T. Morris with inventing
> buffer overflows in front of some old timers.  They pointed out to me that
> there are buffer overflow exploits going back to the 1960's.  The example
> given was an OS/360 problem.

Legendary are the stories about FORTRAN programs using negative array
offsets to fix operating system bugs...

> Crispin
-Olaf.
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