Research and Development of Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Yi Li · 2008
The buffer overflow vulnerability in software results in serious security problem,and attacks based on buffer overflow have brought huge society chaos and economic loss.Many researchers focus on the detection and defense of buffer overflow.In this paper,the execution mechanism of the buffer overflow attacks is first presented,then the progress in detection and defense of buffer overflow is addressed,and finally some major problems and research trends in the area are discussed.