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[PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip.
From: Ben Ford <bford () TALONTECH COM>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:31:26 -0800
I just had an interesting conversation that sparked an idea. One of the major problems we have regarding security is the fact that the stack on the x86 architecture is executable. Because of that, when we have a buffer overflow, arbitrary code can be executed. My question is this: Because the x86 architecture is only software emulated on the Crusoe chip, could that chip (or the software layer emulating the x86) detect when a buffer overflow was happening and head off any code execution, thereby eliminating the root exploit? Seems to me that would be a big plus . . . . . . -b
Current thread:
- [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. Ben Ford (Nov 07)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. Craig Anderson (Nov 07)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. Bennett Todd (Nov 08)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. Robert van der Meulen (Nov 08)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. Craig Anderson (Nov 08)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. Robert van der Meulen (Nov 09)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. Craig Anderson (Nov 08)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. c0ncept (Nov 22)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Crusoe chip. Craig Anderson (Nov 07)