[lug] Security notice and Ramen

[Scott A. Herod]

Nice papers.  Thanks for the references.

Scott

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> Bell labs wrote an article about buffer overflow attacks, and produced
> some alternate functions to replace glibc ones, but they are not
> installed by default, at least not that I know of. When individual weak
> points are exploited, it isn't at all unusual for a fix to be
> incorporated at the next version, but it would probably be nearly
> impossible to find and alter all of them as preventive work. Check out
> libsafe:
> http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/libsafe.html
> http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/docs/usenix00/paper.html
>