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VC++.NET Compiler Called "Vulerability Seeder".

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Publication Date: 25-FEB-02
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COPYRIGHT 2002 G2 Computer Intelligence

A software risk management consultancy by the name of Cigital claims the protection mechanism in Microsoft's Visual C++.NET compiler is vulnerable to attack.

The mechanism is called /GS and is there to handle buffer overflows, the cause of a lot of Microsoft's security woes.

Cigital warns against using it. It claims...

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