[PLUG] Buffer Overrun Question

Don Buchholz don at truedisk.com
Wed Aug 7 23:30:26 UTC 2002


Jason Dagit wrote:
> 
> While at work today I saw another MS unchecked buffer overrun warning and
> the request that everyone patch.
> 
> I realized that as a programmer I wouldn't be able to spot such a thing.
> Does anyone know of a good website or book that teaches about these types
> of exploits?  I want to know detailed description of how they work, what
> they look like in code, common solutions, and guide lines to avoiding this
> pit fall.  And how to test for such things would be nice too.
> 
> Also if you know of a good read about security in general I should
> probably brush up on that also.
> 

here's a copy of a classic ....

  http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jzhou/security/overflow.html




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