Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261406AbVBGMYP (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:24:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261407AbVBGMYO (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:24:14 -0500 Received: from gizmo04bw.bigpond.com ([144.140.70.14]:12928 "HELO gizmo04bw.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261406AbVBGMYM (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:24:12 -0500 From: pageexec@freemail.hu To: Peter Busser , Roman Zippel Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:23:56 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer) Reply-to: pageexec@freemail.hu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4207EA7C.26666.1A9ECB05@localhost> In-reply-to: References: <200502031455.22100.busser@m-privacy.de> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 16 > From http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/pax.txt: > > The goal of the PaX project is to research various defense mechanisms > against the exploitation of software bugs that give an attacker arbitrary > read/write access to the attacked task's address space. > > Could you please explain how PaX makes such applications secure? the answer should be in the doc you linked... if you have specific questions, feel free to ask. - 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/