Paul Eggert

Paul Eggert lectures in the UCLA Computer Science Department in the area of software systems and languages. Previously he was the CTO of Twin Sun, Inc., El Segundo, CA, a strategic technical services company for the Japanese market that has produced several successful products based on GNU, Linux, and BSD software. Paul has contributed to many important GNU projects, including Autoconf, Bison, Diffutils, GNU Emacs, GCC, the GNU C Library, the GNU core utilities, and GNU tar. He is currently a member of the GNU C Library Steering Committee and is a maintainer or developer for far too many GNU projects.

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Core Woes in the GNU utilities and C library

The GNU core utilities and C library reside just above the Linux kernel and underly many important GNU/Linux applications. Ideally this code would be entirely stable and bug-free; unfortunately, several recent exploits have taken advantage of underlying bugs in this area. Problems that afflict the core utilities and C library today may well affect your software tomorrow. We'll discuss a few of the methods used by the exploits, along with techniques for preventing similar problems in the future.

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