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Re: Debian and StackGuard



Previously Jim Pick wrote:
> StackGuard only protects against a small range of security bugs
> (buffer overflows), and imposes a performance penalty.

And even a subset of buffer overflow: stack overflows. It doesn't catch
heap overflows.

Wichert.

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