On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 05:39:42PM -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:17:21 -0800 > Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's a heap-based buffer overflow > > Nevder understood how buffer overflows were not catered for at compilation > time. > > Many moons ago ISTR that attempting something that could result in a buffer > overflow would cause the compil to abend with a 0C7, 0CA or 0CC Exception > code... >
You don't have a way to cater for buffer overflows in C with 100% confidence, with the only (potential) exception of the case where all the memory used by the program is statically allocated. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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