Method and apparatus for preventing buffer overflow security...

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2007-06-12

2007-06-12

Moise, Emmanuel L. (Department: 2137)

Information security

Monitoring or scanning of software or data including attack...

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10177839

ABSTRACT:
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a data buffer. Data for the data buffer is received. A security action is performed in response to detecting data for the data buffer having a size greater than a designated size.

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