[tex-live] Pscryrliic Fonts for TeXLive
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Aug 23 19:06:43 CEST 2007
Edd Barrett writes:
> Isn't a seg fault the system detecting a buffer overflow and therefore
> shutting the process down?
The system cannot detect buffer overflows. A segmentation fault is
raised when an additional memory page is needed. The system doesn't
know what your program does with the memory pages it already assigned
to your process.
And the buffer-overflow exploits usually succeed before a new memory
page is needed. See also:
http://directory.fsf.org/libsafe.html
Regards,
Reinhard
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the tex-live
mailing list