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Re: Classes?
From: gk () SECURITYFOCUS COM (George Kurtz)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:28:53 -0000
Bacano wrote: We gave StackGuard a nice plug in Hacking Exposed(pg 215) as part of our buffer overflow countermeasures section. : ) George <FONT COLOR="#222255">> Other nice (also new) book its Maximum Linux Security</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#222255">> (<A TARGET=nonlocal HREF="/external/http://www.samspublishing.com">http://www.sa mspublishing.com</A> - isbn 0-672-31670-6 - CD with apps included,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#222255">> and with it, if you dont have a volume manager: mount -tiso9660 /dev/cdrom</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#222255">> /mnt/cdrom ... then to install files on HD type: sh /mnt/cdrom/setup )</FONT> 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 ----- Crispin Cowan, CTO, WireX Communications, Inc. <A TARGET=nonlocal HREF="/external/http://wirex.com">http://wirex.com</A> Free Hardened Linux Distribution: <A TARGET=nonlocal HREF="/external/http://immunix.org">http://immunix.org</A>
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