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To: central_va

The root password is irrelevant if you can just overflow a buffer (or even worse, the runtime stack) and execute malicious code. OSX’s problem is its lack of memory protection, which is fairly common among *nix systems.


23 posted on 03/10/2011 2:32:14 PM PST by Echo4C (We have it in our power to begin the world over again. --Thomas Paine)
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To: Echo4C
The root password is irrelevant if you can just overflow a buffer (or even worse, the runtime stack) and execute malicious code.

Or? The point of overflowing the buffer IS to get your executable code onto the stack at the right spot.

31 posted on 03/10/2011 3:12:02 PM PST by Darth Reardon (No offense to drunken sailors)
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