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[I] detection and protection against stack smashing attacks

[T] The libsafe library protects a process against the exploitation of
[T] buffer overflow vulnerabilities in process stacks.  Libsafe works with
[T] any existing pre-compiled executable and can be used transparently,
[T] even on a system-wide basis.  The method intercepts all calls to
[T] library functions that are known to be vulnerable.  A substitute
[T] version of the corresponding function implements the original
[T] functionality, but in a manner that ensures that any buffer overflows
[T] are contained within the current stack frame.  Libsafe has been shown
[T] to detect several known attacks and can potentially prevent yet
[T] unknown attacks.  Experiments indicate that the performance overhead
[T] of libsafe is negligible.

[U] http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/libsafe.html

[A] Arash Baratloo, Timothy Tsai, and Navjot Singh
[M] Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>

[C] base/library

[L] GPL
[S] Stable
[V] 2.0-16
[P] X -?---5---9 106.000

[CV-URL] http://www.research.avayalabs.com/project/libsafe/

[D] 3690639892 libsafe-2.0-16.tgz http://www.research.avayalabs.com/project/libsafe/src/