Thanks to Jim
Reavis for this link.
“In the less than one year that SecurityPortal.com has been
posting Top News, we have literally sent out hundreds of security
alerts. Many of them have been related to security exploits caused
by buffer overflow vulnerabilities. This is one of the biggest
security problems on the Internet today. The worst case scenario
with buffer overflows is that you surrender root access to the
attacker, who then does absolutely anything he wants with your
system. Buffer overflow problems tend to be discovered, exploited
and patched on a case by case basis, leading one to reasonably
assume that many more are hidden in our servers and are introduced
daily in new software releases. Reasonable questions to ask are:
what are they, why are they fixed reactively and what can we do
about them?”
“StackGuard is a DARPA funded project that seeks to solve the
buffer overflow dilemma through a compiler extension.”