[SC-L] Intel turning to hardware for rootkit detection

Chris Wysopal weld at vulnwatch.org
Wed Dec 14 12:38:40 EST 2005



On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, ljknews wrote:

> At 9:14 AM -0500 12/14/05, Gary McGraw wrote:
> > No, that's a copy of stackguard.  The real problem with all of these
> > approaches is that they don't fix the root problem.  Finding and removing
> > buffer overflow conditions with a static analysis tool is far superior.
>
> But still better is using a programming language that does not allow
> buffer overflows.

This isn't a solution to code that is already deployed which is the
problem that stackguard and static analysis address.

-Chris



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