Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262686AbVA0Rs1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:48:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262681AbVA0RoM (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:44:12 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:39626 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262679AbVA0Rlp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:41:45 -0500 Message-ID: <41F927F2.2080100@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:42:10 -0500 From: John Richard Moser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041211) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Julien TINNES , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch 0/6 virtual address space randomisation References: <20050127101117.GA9760@infradead.org> <41F8D44D.9070409@francetelecom.REMOVE.com> <1106827050.5624.81.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1106827050.5624.81.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1711 Lines: 54 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:45 +0100, Julien TINNES wrote: > >>Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >>>The randomisation patch series introduces infrastructure and functionality >>>that causes certain parts of a process' virtual address space to be >>>different for each invocation of the process. The purpose of this is to >>>raise the bar on buffer overflow exploits; full randomisation makes it not >>>possible to use absolute addresses in the exploit. >>> >> >>I think it is worth mentioning that this is part of PaX ASLR, but with >>some changes and simplification. > > > it actually came from Exec-Shield not PaX > Yeah, if it came from PaX the randomization would actually be useful. Sorry, I've just woken up and already explained in another post. [...] > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - -- All content of all messages exchanged herein are left in the Public Domain, unless otherwise explicitly stated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB+SfwhDd4aOud5P8RArzvAJ91+7oeFvQyhfH5ovHkkWG7FQcazgCfchDA 4lxXXLmMA5PcZuICxoxnQGU= =oXcE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/