A Comparison Of Buffer Overflow Prevention Implementations And Weaknesses

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Presented at Blackhat USA 2004 by

Richard Johnson

Buffer overflows are historically the most commonly exploited software vulnerability in the security world. The last year has seen effective automated attacks such as the MS Blaster worm and SQL Slammer worms. Due to the rapid growth of worm technology and readily available automated worm generation tools, the need for buffer overflow protection software has dramatically increased.