RE: Off-by-one errors: a brief explanation

["Gary McGraw" <gem () cigital com>]

In the chapter on buffer overflow in Exploiting Software we have a brief
explanation of off-by-one NULL termination errors and show how they can
be exploited.  This is on pages 304-308.  We provide an example with
strncat(), and show how the stack looks before and after.

gem

See http://www.exploitingsoftware.com/



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