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
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HREF="/external/http://wirex.com">http://wirex.com</A>
Free Hardened Linux Distribution: <A
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HREF="/external/http://immunix.org">http://immunix.org</A>
Received on Oct 24 1999
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