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From: jonathan at xcorps.net (Jonathan Rickman)
Date: Wed Sep 17 16:53:13 2003
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On Wednesday 17 September 2003 16:43, Geoffrey wrote:
> Mike Panetta wrote:
> > Now if Imay ask, what would make it harder to exploit this bug on
> > OpenBSD vs. Linux?  Not to start a flame war or anything...
>
> Fewer targets??? ;)

Stack protection. Not sure how it would affect this particular hole, but 
it does have an impact on many similar overflows.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
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