Bugtraq: Re: Buffer overflow prevention

[Miod Vallat <miod () online fr>]

>   ProPolice is not magical, though. There are plenty of cases where it is
> totally inefficient. To illustrate a very common one :
[snip oflow of 5-byte buffer]

This particular case ``works'' because, by design, propolice will not
attempt to protect structures smaller than 16 bytes.

This can be changed by a simple gcc recompilation... and it's probably
worth doing.

Miod