> However I still contend that this is an ass-backwards way to fix
> bugs in software.
That may be...but it definitely works and adds and extra line of defense
against unknown or unfixed buffer overflow exploits. It helped me catch
the guy using the vsyslog libc overflow, and stopped him from getting root
again.
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