Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:42:10 -0500 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: Patch 0/6 virtual address space randomisation |
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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.
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