Chapter 3. Secure Programming

Chapter 3. Secure Programming
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Contributed by Murray Stokely.

Table of Contents

3.1. Synopsis
3.2. Secure Design Methodology
3.3. Buffer Overflows
3.4. SetUID issues
3.5. Limiting your program's environment
3.6. Trust
3.7. Race Conditions

3.1. Synopsis

This chapter describes some of the security issues that have plagued UNIX® programmers for decades and some of the new tools available to help programmers avoid writing exploitable code.

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