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Buffer overflow attacks; detect, exploit, prevent.


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Buffer overflow A common cause of malfunctioning software. If the amount of data written into a buffer exceeds the size of the buffer, the additional data will be written into adjacent areas, which could be buffers, constants, flags or variables.  attacks; detect, exploit, prevent.

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Syngress Media, Inc., [c]2005

497 p.

$34.95 (pa)

Foster, a computer security professional, shows Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 developers how to defend against buffer overflow attacks by implementing a comprehensive design, coding, and test plan. He provides numbered-by- line code examples to illustrate the differences between stack overflows An error condition that occurs when there is no room in the stack for a new item. This error condition can also occur when other things go awry; for example, a bad expansion board or one that isn't seated properly in the slot can cause erratic signals eventually leading to a stack , heap corruption, and format string bugs, and provides case studies for most major platforms and environments, including Windows, Front Page, and Linux. The book is distributed in the US by O'Reilly.
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