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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:04:49 +0900
From: Bruce Harada <bruce@ask.ne.jp>
To: James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:22:26 +0000 (GMT)
James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> 
> (Long description of how to create a non-executable stack on x86)
>
> ISTR there is a patch which does this for Linux, though??

See:

 http://www.openwall.com/linux/

for Solar Designer's patch, and:

 http://www.insecure.org/sploits/non-executable.stack.problems.html

for the exploit. It was done to death on the linux-security ML a while
ago, so you could search the archives if you want to know more.

--
Bruce Harada
bruce@ask.ne.jp

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