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IP: Libsafe
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 07:44:27 -0400
http://www.wideopen.com/story/762.html Upshot: Released under the General Public License, Libsafe is designed to protect against the most common type of security attack. Wider: * Libsafe Source Code * StackGuard Compile Bell Labs, the R&D arm of Lucent Technologies, announced Thursday that it has released Libsafe, a new security software program for Linux. Libsafe prevents intruders from overloading an application's buffer memory to gain unauthorized access to a computer. (Located between two devices that have varying speeds for handling data, a buffer acts as a temporary storage unit or "dam," holding data and then disseminating it at a rate that will not flood the "lower banks.") According to a joint report by the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology and Darpa, buffer overflows or "stack-smashing attacks" have been the most common type of security exploit during the past 10 years.
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