Stack shielding technologies have been developed to protect programs against exploitation
of stack based buffer overflows. Among different types of protections, we can separate two …

Detection and prevention of stack buffer overflow attacks Page 1 50 November 2005/Vol. 48,
No. 11 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Page 2 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM …

Despite numerous security technologies crafted to resist buffer overflow vulnerabilities,
buffer overflows continue to be the dominant form of software security vulnerability. This is …

Since 1998, StackGuard patches to GCC have been used to protect entire distributions from
stack smashing buffer overflows. Performance overhead and software compatibility issues …

This paper presents several methods of bypassing the protection mechanism built into
Microsoft's Windows 2003 Server that attempts to prevent the exploitation of stack based …

Despite having been around for more than 25 years, buffer overflow attacks are still a major
security threat for deployed software. Existing techniques for buffer overflow detection …

Buffer Overflow (BOF) has been a ubiquitous security vulnerability for more than three
decades, potentially compromising any software application or system. This vulnerability …

Throughout the history of cyber security, buffer over? ow is one of the most serious
vulnerabilities in computer systems.(Note that according to this disclosure 'buffer'could be a …

Buffer overflow attacks still pose a significant threat to the security and availability of today's
computer systems. Although there are a number of solutions proposed to provide adequate …

Buffer overflow exploits make use of the treatment of strings in C as character arrays rather
than as first-class objects. Manipulation of arrays as pointers and primitive pointer arithmetic …