A Checklist Based Approach for the Mitigation of Buffer Overflow Attacks

Buffer overflows has appear to be one of the most common problems in the area of software security. Many of the buffer overflow problems are probably the result of careless programming, which might have been found and corrected by the developers, before releasing the software. The work presented in this paper is intended to detect and prevent such buffer overflow vulnerabilities. In this paper, two separate checklists are proposed to both programmers as well as test engineers for verifying the software during coding and testing phases respectively for building secure software.