From: mike stump <mrs@windriver.com>
To: fw@deneb.enyo.de
Cc: eager@mvista.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Buffer Overflow Attacks
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111010020.QAA24162@kankakee.wrs.com> (raw)
> To: mike stump <mrs@windriver.com>
> Cc: eager@mvista.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, jsm28@cam.ac.uk
> From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 19:23:54 +0100
> So I have to retract my original claim that it was impossible to do
> buffer overflow checks in such cases. After all, a pointer in
> C-speak (or "address", as in "address-of operator") is not very
> similar to a machine address.
Off Topic: A pointer in C speak is exactly like a machine address.
Please show us C code that shows a difference. comp.lang.c is a
better place for these types of comments.
next reply other threads:[~2001-10-31 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-31 16:39 mike stump [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-18 17:00 mike stump
2001-10-31 10:01 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-14 12:25 dewar
2001-10-14 8:01 dewar
2001-10-14 10:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-14 11:08 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-10-14 12:14 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-14 12:29 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-10-18 15:02 ` Michael Eager
2001-10-14 5:32 Frank Pilhofer
2001-10-14 7:33 ` Carlo Wood
2001-10-14 10:50 ` Florian Weimer
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