Hey all, I'm just a newbie and was wanting to know all about this buffer overflow problems that these big companies seem to be having trouble with.
Microsoft had some critical flaw in their plug & play component - this had something to do with buffer overflow.
AOL had some critical flaw in their Instant Messenger - and this was also some buffer overflow problem.
I read some stuff about it, cos I really had no idea, and read that it's overflowing the buffer with malicious data and it is this overflowed data that contains the code that could potentially destroy the users PC.
Anyways, I was just wondering, firstly, is this right at all or is it just total BS and secondly, if it's such a critical security issue, why can't these BIG companies get it right??
Greg
