Eliminating Buffer Overflows

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Eliminating Buffer Overflows (2007)

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by John Edwards

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@MISC{Edwards07eliminatingbuffer,
    author = {John Edwards},
    title = {Eliminating Buffer Overflows},
    year = {2007}
}

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Abstract

Buffer overflow attacks are among the oldest and most common attacks used to gain privileged access to a computer system. In fact, statistics from Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Emergency Response Team reveal that buffer overflow vulnerabilities accounted for about 50 % of all reported vulnerabilities in 2000 [2]. It is surprising that after almost 20 years of buffer overflow exploits, they are still one of the most common vulnerabilities today. In 1999, the CEO of Microsoft was quoted, “You would think we could have figured out how to fix buffer overflows by now... ” [23]. This paper will provide a solution on how to do just that, eliminate buffer overflows for good. 1

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