Re: Securing a Windows 2003 server

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 05/02/04


Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 09:48:34 -0700


"Alun Jones [MS MVP]" <alun@texis.invalid> wrote in message
news:HyNkc.3985$PV3.659@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com...
> In article <eqXpT#zLEHA.2632@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, "Roger Abell [MVP]"
> <mvpNoSpam@asu.edu> wrote:
>>They do not need to hammer on it, as they can access the source
>>and know where to go, assuming they can see something there . . .
>
> Oh, I don't know - in many ways, it's easier to hammer on the outside than
> to look at the source. You can find a buffer overflow, generally, much
> quicker by passing in huge buffers than by poring line-by-line through the
> code and trying to figure out where it might be possible.
>
> Um... not that I've tried that myself, you understand... oh no.
>
> Alun.
> ~~~~
>

yea, right . . . :-)
I mean, yes as far as overflows are concerned.

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