Re: A way to prevent buffer overflow exploits?

Shriram Krishnamurthi <shriram@cs.rice.edu> writes:


>[Were those the experiments that showed that nearly every program that
>came with Unix crashed when fed random input? Pretty sad. -John]


And most of the problems were not fixed in the later trials,
even though the authors had pinpointed most of the bugs. IIRC, the
GNU and Linux tool sets were the top two in terms of reliability.


ObCompilers: Apart from someone's hacked version of gcc, what C
compilers will insert array bounds checking for you?


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Thomas Conway <conway@cs.mu.oz.au>
[I think that Centerline's tools did that, but I don't know what's become
of them now that Centerline is kaput. -John]
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