Monday, January 27, 2003

Taking Buffer Overruns Seriously in C++. Taking Buffer Overruns Seriously in C++. Today's reports about yet another virus worm, again based on exploiting buffer overruns underscores the importance of understanding and removing these problems from your and your company's code. This particular one occured yet again in a Microsoft product but buffer overruns are and have been exploited in almost every operating system or software product based on C/C++. The question is what can be done about this? Well, if you are developing C++ based software on Windows, you must seriously consider recompiling alll your code with the /GS flag of VC++.NET 2003 and then give some consideration to Windows Server 2003. [READ MORE....] [Sam Gentile's Weblog] 4:20:48 PM   comment_[]

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