Analysis on Calling the Lib Function Securely

Zheng Yu-tong · Microcomputer applications · 2006

Firstly the paper introduces buffer overflow and the potential attack based on it, then from the view of a C programmer, to discusse program security when three kinds of common used lib functions were called, finally it try to analysis the inner mechanism that cause buffer overflow. It would be helpful to minimize buffer overflow and improve the security of the program if we take actions consciously when calling these lib functions.

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