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Is there any way to find the original buffer limit, in the case of buffer overflows

From: mmiller at hick.org (mmiller at hick.org)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:25:14 -0700

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:38:22PM +0530, M.P.Sairam wrote:

Can we know the size only for buf1


Why do you want to know the size of buf1?  It shouldn't add much value
when writing the exploit as far as I know.  You may be able to figure
out its size by looking at the contextual disassembly to see if it
explicitly zeroes the buffer, for example.

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Is there any way to find the original buffer limit, in the case of buffer overflows M.P.Sairam (May 30)
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