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DateThu, 27 Jan 2005 12:45:17 +0100
FromJulien TINNES <>
SubjectRe: Patch 0/6 virtual address space randomisation
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.
I have some questions about the changes:

for RANDMMAP why doing randomization in mmap_base() and not in 
arch_pick_mmap_layout? You miss a whole case here where legacy layout is 
used.

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Julien TINNES - & france telecom - R&D Division/MAPS/NSS
Research Engineer - Internet/Intranet Security
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