Re: Buffer Overflow

From: Bjorn Reese (breese@mail1.stofanet.dk)
Date: 04/06/03 

Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:46:51 +0000
From: Bjorn Reese <breese@mail1.stofanet.dk>

Jack wrote:
>
> Hey Guys I need your point of view in terms of buffer overflow. These
> are the steps i take while transfering data from one socket to the
> other.
> 1) The first 2 bytes of the message tell me the length of the buffer.
> 2) I malloc my buffer for that size, memset the buffer
> 3) If the data size increases my MAX_LIMIT i disregard the message.

Is the socket closed after you disregard the message? If not, how
do you know where in the socket stream the next valid message starts?

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