[AccessD] One hardware solution to MS buffer overflow security problems

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Thu Sep 23 16:25:55 CDT 2004


This solution is to use Win XP SP2 and brand new Intel chips with 
Execute Disable bit set
Right now it is only available in Intel Itanium Servers  and AMD Athalon 
64 bit servers.
http://www.intel.com/business/bss/infrastructure/security/xdbit.htm

What it does, is set apart pages of memory to be data only, so code 
cannot be executed from it.

http://www.intel.com/business/bss/infrastructure/security/flash.htm

-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada






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