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Re: Buffer overflow prevention
- To: Crispin Cowan <crispin@immunix.com>
- Subject: Re: Buffer overflow prevention
- From: Mariusz Woloszyn <emsi@ipartners.pl>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:12:20 +0200 (EEST)
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> OTOH, I like the variable sorting hack in ProPolice, and thought about
> implementing it, but chose instead to concentrate on PointGuard, which
> protects all of the cases that ProPolice variable sorting protects, and
> then some.
>
I's not just a "hack" it's a great improvement that distinguish ProPolice
from Stackguard.
To be honest, it's the main reason why I migrated form SG to PP.
Beside that PP protects function arguments unlike SG!
To recapitulate: SG vs PP 0:2.
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Mariusz Wołoszyn
Internet Security Specialist, GTS - Internet Partners