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(Answer) (Category) SULinux Faq-O-Matic : (Category) General Information : (Answer) What is libsafe?
Libsafe protects against buffer overflow attacks by preloading certain dangerous C functions such as strcpy and sprintf. Libsafe will make programs exit instead of allowing them to be exploited.

More information is available at http://www.avayalabs.com/project/libsafe/index.html

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