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Crispin Cowan, Calton Pu, Dave Maier, Heather Hinton, Jonathan Walpole,

• Introduction
• Buffer Overflow Attacks
• StackGuard: Making the Stack Safe for Network Access
• Detecting Return Address Change Before Return
• Randomizing the Canary
• Preventing Return Address Changes With MemGuard
• Adaptive Defense Strategies
• Experimental Results
• StackGuard Effectiveness
• StackGuard Overhead
• Canary StackGuard Overhead
• MemGuard StackGuard Overhead
• StackGuard Macrobenchmarks
• Discussion
• Defending Against Future Attacks
• Administration and Configuration
• Performance Optimizations
• Future Work
• Related Work
• Non-Executable Stack
• FreeBSD Stack Integrity Check
• Array Bounds Checking for C
• Memory Access Checking
• Type-Safe Languages
• Conclusions
• Availability
• References
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