buffer overflow

[Rosli Ahmad]

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

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

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

Regards,
John

[Christian Gebhardt]

Hi

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

Chris

[Rosli Ahmad]

Thank you guys for the informative & helpful links.

Regards
Rosli Ahmad

[doug hosking]

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.