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

From: Crispin Cowan <crispin () immunix com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:02:12 -0700

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 morescarce when composed with FormatGuard <http://immunix.org/formatguard.html>.


Crispin

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