[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing [COPY] the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by [COPY] the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text! [COPY] [COPY] ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/libsafe/libsafe.desc [COPY] ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf [COPY] [COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify [COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by [COPY] the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or [COPY] (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public [COPY] License can be found at Documentation/COPYING. [COPY] [COPY] Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please [COPY] have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM [COPY] file for details. [COPY] [COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- [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 [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/