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A New Method to Prevent Heap Overflows

QIU Xiao-Peng1, ZHANG Yu-Qing1, FENG Deng-Guo2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Beijing 100049, China;
    2. National Computer Network Intrusion Protection Center, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2004-06-04 Revised:2004-07-20 Online:2005-03-15

Abstract:

Buffer overflows are the most serious threat to the computer security. In this paper, the principle of the heap overflows is discussed, and a method of memory management is proposed, which can perform self management to the memory. With this method, the heap overflows can be prevented effectively.

Key words: buffer overflows, heap, memory management, secure program

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