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Re: buffer overflow possible in CNI string-handling code?


Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
> The end of the stack is guarded by a write-protected page.

Okay, here's where I show my ignorance...

So why do buffer overflows work?

Wouldn't the overflowing strcpy() [that's usually the offending call,
right?] hit the write-protected page and cause a fault?

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