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AMD Could Profit from Buffer-Overflow Protection

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brimming-moneybags dept.

spin2cool writes "New Scientist has an article about how AMD and Intel are planning on releasing new consumer chips with built-in buffer-overflow protection. Apparently AMD's chips will make it to market first, though, which some analysts think could give AMD an advantage as the next round of chips are released. The question will be whether their PR department can spin this into a big enough story to sell to the Average Joe."

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  1. Re:Please explain by jrexilius · · Score: 0, Redundant

    LOL.. yes Joe.. and it would do your dishes ;-)

  2. Ever heard of mprotect(2)? by ^BR · · Score: 0, Redundant

    See mprotect(2).

    This syscall exists since about forever and is pretty standard on *nix platforms. Any well written on the fly code generating code is already relying on it.

    It's not exactly like you are the first to foresee the problem...

    I think I just made a dupe comment...