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February 22nd, 2004, 10:58 PM
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The End of Buffer Overflows!
New Scientist 21 February 2004 P 21 "Chips to ease Microsoft's big securtity nightmare"
It seems that intel & amd are about to release the latest version of their processors which, coupled with a new version of Windows XP, will prevent buffer overflows.
... chip makers Advance Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel are developing processor chips that will deal with the [buffer overflow] problem. AMD's Athlon-64 (for PCs) and Opteron (for servers) will protect against buffer overflows when used with a new version of Windows XP.
The new chips/XP work by identifying memory as either executable code or data and prevent data from overwriting code and code jumping to execute data.
A very good idea IMO
Steve
IT, e-commerce, Retail, Programme & Project Management, EPoS, Supply Chain and Logistic Services. Yorkshire. http://www.bigi.uk.com
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