Security news and informationVista may help to protect MS Office attacks
Thomas Dullien, head of research for reverse-engineering tool maker Sabre Security, posted on his blog that a feature in Windows Vista will help to block the rash of client side exploits that have been targeting Microsoft Office. This new feature called address space layout randomization, or ASLR, spreads data randomly through a process’s memory space. Doing this makes it much harder for an attacker to pick the right memory address that it needs to target in order to exploit a known security risk.
