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SubjectRe: Non-Executable Stack Patch
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

>
> The biggest problem we have left securitywise is probably /tmp file anyway
> especially from GNU tools
>
In that the GNU tools use /tmp more than vendor "x" tools, or that GNU
tools are more aware (and hense avoid) stack overflow problems (not that
either is more or less secure ;) ?

Bryn
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