Re: Stack-Smash Protector

Ivo Bitter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:06:58PM +0100, Ian Molton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:34:10 +0000 (UTC)
> [email protected] (Ivo Bitter) wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Erk. the cure sounds worse than the disease...

Yeah... That's why i'm not using it myself :) 

I tried the patch ages ago but other parts of it did Bad Things to my
system. They probably fixed that by now though.
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