On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:47, Peter Ondraska wrote: > This may be quite offtopic and definitely not debian related. > I am just making a school work on security related bugs and programming > errors. I would like to ask some of you to list me some error classes you > know. I mean, a 'Buffer overflow' or 'Format string vulnerability' are > classes because they appear in many programs and in variety of types. > I don't ask for high level categories, like 'Boundary condition error', > but I won't dump them if you mention some:) But these depend on the > chosen taxonomy/hierarchy. Phrack #49 has an article named "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" which describes buffer overflows and why they are dangerous. (www.phrack.org) Janus -- Janus Nørgaard Tøndering email: janus(at)bananus.dk or janus(at)daimi.au.dk "The cigarette does the smoking, you're just the sucker." -Unknown
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