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Re: Re: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows
From: "Jeremiah Cornelius" <jeremiah () nur net>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:14:23 -0800
There is an updated whitepaper describing the changes of WinXP SP2 which describes the Execution Protection (NX) technology introduced in this sp (and also in the Service Pack 1 for Server 2003) at pages 43-47 Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bd948d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=en
So far, this breaks Winsock for Cygwin, and completely hoses MS's own SFU 3.5... We'll see what Beta 2 does, but I bet it means re-engineering the network access in Cyg.
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- Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows Richard M. Smith (Feb 23)
- Re: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows Ralf Ertzinger (Feb 23)
- Re: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows William Warren (Feb 23)
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- RE: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows hybriz (Feb 23)
- RE: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows Mike Barushok (Feb 23)
- RE: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows Michael Williamson (Feb 24)
- RE: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows Mike Barushok (Feb 23)
- Re: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows Helmut Hauser (Feb 24)
- Re: Re: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows Jeremiah Cornelius (Feb 24)