http://whijo.net/taxonomy/term/124/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://whijo.net/blog/brad/2006/08/16/stop-impending-buffer-overflow.html <p>I realised the other day that IRC clients and servers are prey to a terrible buffer flaw. People too often leave open " and ' and even ( and {'s in idle conversation. Imagine how many servers <u>Right now</u> are filling up buffers and buffers of unclosed entities. I say we stop the madness now. Everyone needs to start chucking a few extra ",',) and }'s into their conversations, to <strong>Stop the impending buffer nightmare</strong>. We don't know how many buffers are slowly ticking up, but we do know they are out there. Rather err on the side of caution, and stop those buffers <u>before it is too late</u>. Imagine if the Internet crashed. Imagine how much extra work google's server farms do because of it. I am starting today. }}}}}))))"""""''''</p> http://whijo.net/blog/brad/2006/08/16/stop-impending-buffer-overflow.html#comments buffer overflow exploit geek Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:45:19 +0200 brad 395 at http://whijo.net