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Sqreater
January 14th, 2006, 07:01 AM
{QUOTE-> BOWall is the solution implementing protection against buffer overflow attacks for windows nt4/w2k/xp/2003. The protection is based on patching system DLLs by two methods.

1) Vulnerable functions monitoring

Patching exported strcpy, wstrcpy, strncpy, wstrncpy, strcat, wcscat, strncat, wstrncat, memcpy, memmove, sprintf, swprintf, scanf, wscanf., gets, getws, fgets, fgetws by adding the code wich checks for local frame base pointer integrity.

2) Preventing execution of dynamic libraries functions from writable memory

Patching exproted DLL functions by adding the code which checks for caller address. If caller address belongs to data or stack then program execution is blocked.

Both methods are implemented to detect buffer overflow or exploit activity, buffer overflow itself is not prevented. <-QUOTE}

http://www.securesize.com/BOWall/index.shtml

Anyone tried it?

Ilya Rabinovich
January 14th, 2006, 08:16 AM
It is an very old project of the Andrey Kolischak. I really doubt it is still effective tool.

securitynewb
January 14th, 2006, 10:11 AM
Ok then can someone let us know what are some good, preferably free, programs that prevent or at least warn of buffer overflows? Thanx.

Franklin
January 14th, 2006, 12:46 PM
http://www.sanasecurity.com/products/as/features.php

Ilya Rabinovich
January 15th, 2006, 03:10 AM
You could take a look at my DefencePlus (www.softsphere.com).