Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 May 2003 11:29:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature |
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On Fri, 2 May 2003, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes: > > > Ingo, do you want protection against shell code injection ? Have the > > kernel to assign random stack addresses to processes and they won't be > > able to guess the stack pointer to place the jump. > > If your software is broken enough to have buffer overflow bugs, it's > not entirely unlikely that it leaks the stack address as well (IIRC, > BIND 8 did).
Leaking the stack address is not a problem in this case, since the next run will be very->very->very likely different.
- Davide
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