A Survey of Research on Buffer Overflows
Lin Zhi · 2004
Buffer overflows are getting more and more popular in system security these years,which attack can inflict upon almost arbitrary programs. And as we have known,buffer overflow is one of the most common vulnerabilities that can seriously compromise the security of a network-attached computer system. This paper surveys all kinds of buffer overflows vulnerabilities,the most commonly used attacks,the respective defense methods related to their vulnerabilities,and the comparative summarizations up-to-date researches in this area. At last,we also present our point of view on buffer overflows.