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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:39:05 +0100
From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Peter Busser <busser@m-privacy.de>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6  randomize the stack
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El Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:44:39 +0100 Peter Busser <busser@m-privacy.de> escribi?:

> > which is clearly there to sabotage any segmentation based approach (eg
> > execshield and openwall etc); it cannot have any other possible use or
> > meaning.
> 
> Ah, so you are saying that I sabotaged PaXtest? Sorry to burst your bubble, 
> but the PaXtest tests are no real attacks. They are *simulated* attacks. The 
> do_mprotect() is there to *simulate* behaviour people found in GLIBC under 
> certain circumstances. In other words: This is how certain applications 
> behave when run on exec-shield. They complained that PaXtest showed 
> inaccurate results on exec-shield. Since the purpose of PaXtest is to show 
> accurate results, the lack thereof has been fixed.


And people complains that nobody uses pax....
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