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Re: [News] Another Crease - Stack Overflow in Vista Found

  • Subject: Re: [News] Another Crease - Stack Overflow in Vista Found
  • From: Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:05:23 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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On 17 Oct 2006 14:22:29 -0700, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> http://sysdream.com/articles/Stack%20overflow%20on%20Windows%20Vista.pdf
> 
>         (PDF warning)
> 
> It is only one among many flaws that have already been
> spotted in what is supposedly "the most secure O/S ever".
> Some flaws were more severe.

Not.  The article discusses legacy applications that are not randomized, in
other words, apps that aren't trying to be secure.  Apps that are compiled
to use ASLR aren't analyzed.  In other words, this isn't a weakness in
Vista that isn't already there in any other OS.

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