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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Have any of you heard about libsafe? Read this blurb and see what you think. It's good to see a company such as Lucent making software available under GPL.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">BE SAFE-WITH LIBSAFE</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Among computer intruders, one of the most popular means of attack is the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">buffer overflow, in which a program is deliberately overloaded in a way that</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">gives the intruder control of the running process. Many Linux programs are</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, but the vulnerabilities often remain</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">unknown until intruders learn how to exploit them.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thanks to the efforts of the Network Software Research Department at Lucent</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Labs, there's a new utility called Libsafe that prevents buffer overflow</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">intrusions at the system level-which means that you'll be protected even if</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">you're running defective software. Commendably, the Lucent folks have made</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Libsafe available under the terms of the GNU Library Public License, so you</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">can expect to see this valuable contribution appearing in the next version</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">of your Linux distribution. To obtain it now, visit</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><A HREF="http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/</A> <<A HREF="http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/</A>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">and click through first to the Projects page and then to the Libsafe page.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">RPM packages are located at <A HREF="http://linuxfort.com/libsafe/" TARGET="_blank">http://linuxfort.com/libsafe/</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><<A HREF="http://linuxfort.com/libsafe/" TARGET="_blank">http://linuxfort.com/libsafe/</A>> . Download yours today!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Gregory L. Camp</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Gregory.Camp@osc.com</FONT>
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