Preventing Stack Overflow Attacks

Posted by tracyanne on Jun 12, 2012 8:14 AM EDT
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The use of special prologues and epilogues around functions can easily detect attacks that rely on stack overflows. Here is how "stack smashing" is actually performed and how its occurrence is detected.

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