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January 27, 2002 Buffer Overflow Errors

While in New York for his appearance on Live with Regis and Kelly, Leo did an interview with Alison Stewart on ABC World News Now. The interview can be seen in Real Media format on the NBC website:
Leo's Interview on ABC World News Now

On Friday's show, TSS featured Matt Conover of w00w00.org, explaining the recent security hole in AOL Instant Messenger. The cause was a buffer overflow error. The TSS article was too basic, and the w00w00 site article was a bit too sophisticated for someone like me who is fairly tech savvy but not familiar with the C programming language and x86 memory stacks. I found the following article which explains buffer overflows well at several different levels of understanding:
Definition: Buffer Overflow

Posted by Christy on January 27, 2002 09:25 PM

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