"Theo points out that these changes have a couple of significant impacts. He explains that for over a decade efforts have been made to find and fix buffer overflows, and more recently bugs have been found in which software is reading before the start of a buffer, or beyond the end of the buffer. With these recent memory allocation changes, such an attempt will cause the application to coredump with a SIGSEGV signal."
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
OpenBSD: Improved Memory Allocation, Beta Testing 3.8
Mozilla and hypocrisy
Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to Yahoo and making that the default upon ...
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Intrusion Detection with Tripwire : "Do this by adding a comma after the severity= line and putting emailto= on the next line, followed...
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Its crazy that the stats for this blog show that there were about a 100 visitors today. I haven't posted in a long time. Blogger really...