Bugtraq: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch

[William Robertson <wkr () cs ucsb edu>]

Hi all,

I'd just like to announce that we have a heap protection system for 
glibc available for download. The system detects and prevents all heap 
overflow exploits that modify inline control information from 
succeeding against a protected application, can be installed 
system-wide or on a per-process basis using LD_PRELOAD, and is 
transparent to existing applications.
We would definitely appreciate any feedback and bug reports on the 
code. The patch and some additional information is available at:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~wkr/projects/heap_protection/

Enjoy!

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William Robertson
Reliable Software Group, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~wkr/