How It Works
Typically, buffer overflow protection modifies the organization of data in the stack frame of a function call to include a "canary" value which, when destroyed, shows that a buffer preceding it in memory has been overflowed. This gives the benefit of preventing an entire class of attacks. According to some software vendors, the performance impact of these techniques is negligible.
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