On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, v0id [CNS] wrote: > They mean the same thing, whether its called overflowing, smashing the stack, or whatever... > > overrun --> meaning data being copied past the end of a char array. > overwrite --> writing data past the char array onto other parts of the stack.. > overflow --> spilling out onto other parts of the stack.. Here are 2 links that could be useful for some (additional info. on the theme "Buffer Overflow" http://www.enseirb.fr/~glaume/bof/report.html http://immunix.org/StackGuard/discex00.pdf David Correa Public Key http://www.linux-tech.com/linuxtech.asc Key fingerprint 7F2C E072 479D 71B4 008B 373E A284 8CDE 7659 F5D8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
