Re: Stack-Smash Protector

Ivo Bitter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:52:36PM +0100, Ian Molton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 03:54:59 +0000 (UTC)
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > 
> > POSIX compliance dictates that the stack should be executeable.  This
> > is, of course, intensely obnoxious,
> 
> Hadnt realised that. shocking.
> 
> I wonder if its possible to disable that in the kernel. shouldnt be
> hard, even if there is no option...

The grsecurity patch (see www.grsecurity.net) has a non-executable
stack option. I think the openwall patches have something similar for
2.2 kernels.

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