Thare are some good articles like "Smashing the stack" at http://www.insecure.org/reading.html
For interested, there are stack smashing protection in gcc. The patches are called propolice and contributed by IBM research. See http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/
With recent incidents of major linux secutiry breaches such a FSF/Debian/Gentoo I wounder why these are not in mainstream gcc and why default kernels in major distro's includes things like grsecurity(http://www.grsecurity.net/) May be it is too much hassle for the trouble worth but I would definitely like to see these things bundled with distro.s
This should be especially easy with source based distro.s such as gentoo..
Shridhar
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