topic Re: buffer overflow in Operating System - HP-UX

buffer overflow

Rosli Ahmad — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:14:54 GMT

I have been reading a lot about security alerts, the latest being the sendmail buffer overflow threat. I wonder if anybody can explain what does buffer overflow mean and how will it compromise my system.

Thank you in advance

Re: buffer overflow

John Palmer — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:18:27 GMT

Have a look at this:-
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci549024,00.html

Regards,
John

Re: buffer overflow

Christian Gebhardt — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:19:01 GMT

Hi

http://www.astalavista.com/library/auditing/bufferoverflow/basic.shtml

Chris

Re: buffer overflow

Rosli Ahmad — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:55:56 GMT

Thank you guys for the informative & helpful links.

Regards
Rosli Ahmad

Re: buffer overflow

doug hosking — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:46:53 GMT

A few more useful links:
http://www.phrack.com/phrack/49/P49-14
(This one is a bit deep. Don't worry too
much about the details. If you understand
the high-level concept, that's enough.)

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/11i/59807127en.pdf

suggests one way to help protect your HP-UX system from common buffer overflow problems.