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Re: Classes?


From: crispin () CSE OGI EDU (Crispin Cowan)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 03:26:59 +0000


Bacano wrote:

Other nice (also new) book its Maximum Linux Security
(http://www.samspublishing.com - isbn 0-672-31670-6 - CD with apps included,
and with it, if you dont have a volume manager: mount -tiso9660 /dev/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom ... then to install files on HD type: sh /mnt/cdrom/setup )

So I wandered down to Powell's to check out this amazing new book.  3 out of
800 pages on buffer overflows.  Perhaps I'm biassed (because he doesn't cite
StackGuard at all :-) but doesn't the buffer overflow problem deserve just a
bit more attention than that?

Sorry, I just had to rant at someone.  A huge portion of everything I see on
the net about security pertains to buffer overflows, and it's puzzling that
this huge book gives the subject so little attention.

Crispin
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