Re: Stack-Smash Protector
Ian Molton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.security |
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| Organization | The Dragon Roost |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:06:53 +0000 (UTC) [email protected] (Ivo Bitter) wrote: > > 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. Unfortunately, it looks like IA-32 cant protect pages from execution itself (from my admitteldly brief look at the patch), so I doubt this can be implemented without horrible penalties as described... The ARM 26 architecture cant do it either, without the paging hack. I dunno about ARM32. -- Unsubscribe: send email to [email protected] and put 'unsubscribe lfs-security' in the subject header of the message