Re: (Shellcode Injection)

[ljknews <ljknews () mac com>]

At 2:14 PM +1100 12/15/03, Louis Solomon [SteelBytes] wrote:
> > > The malicous code often spawns a shell,
> >
> > External to the defective program, that could be avoided by running
> > the program in a process with insufficient quota to spawn a subprocess
> > (on operating systems that support such).
>
> one can't always limit to that degree, as sometimes the program being hacked
> has legitimate reasons for that much privilidge.

Probably there is no technique that can _always_ be applied.
If discussions are to be restricted to approaches that are of
universal applicability, it would be more efficient to shut the
list down.