Re: Stack Shield: defending from stack smashing attacks

1999-09-04 Thread Chris Keane
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, "CC" = Crispin Cowan wrote: + So, why would one use the approach of saving the return address on + another stack, instead of patching the stack itself, like StackGuard? + The only reason I can imagine, is that one does not want to change the + stack layout. The

Re: Stack Shield: defending from stack smashing attacks

1999-08-30 Thread Crispin Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stack Shield is a new tool that add protection form "stack smashing" attacks at compile time without changing a line of code. The home page is http://www.angelfire.com/sk/stackshield It is still in beta. The home page say "Stack Shield uses a more secure protection