No More Buffer Overflows?
Saw this over at HNN
A provocative documentation and source code proposol by members of the PaX project may spell the end for buffer overflow attacks on Intel IA-32 chips. The possibility of creating non-executable pages in x86 chips is at the helm of this massive undertaking. No one can be certain this scheme will work without extreme peer review of both the paper and source code.
PaX announcement on SecurityGeeks
