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24Oct/070

QUICKLINK: Understanding Buffer Overflows in OS X Leopard

OS X LeopardHow Leopard Will Improve Your Security

The most significant security update in Leopard is one that you'll never notice, but that will cause the bad guys no end of frustration. It's an anti-exploitation technology Apple calls Library Randomization (also known generically as Memory Randomization and as Address Space Layout Randomization in Windows Vista). To understand Library Randomization we need to take talk about vulnerabilities, exploits, and buffer overflows.

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