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

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

Crispin Cowan <crispin () immunix com> writes:

> Thanks to Snax and the Shmoo for a better tag line: It's not the Size
> of the Buffer, it's the Address of the Pointer

This is not true.  There are buffer overflow exploits which do not
modify pointers, but other objects.  The most prominent example is
probably the "c c c c c..." exploit for the Solaris /bin/login
vulnerability.