[ale] [Fwd: buffer overflow in sendmail]

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Wed Sep 17 16:53:13 EDT 2003


On Wednesday 17 September 2003 16:43, Geoffrey wrote:
> Mike Panetta wrote:
> > Now if Imay ask, what would make it harder to exploit this bug on
> > OpenBSD vs. Linux?  Not to start a flame war or anything...
>
> Fewer targets??? ;)

Stack protection. Not sure how it would affect this particular hole, but 
it does have an impact on many similar overflows.

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Jonathan Rickman
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