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SubjectRe: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)
El Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:44:39 +0100 Peter Busser <busser@m-privacy.de> escribió:

> > which is clearly there to sabotage any segmentation based approach (eg
> > execshield and openwall etc); it cannot have any other possible use or
> > meaning.
>
> Ah, so you are saying that I sabotaged PaXtest? Sorry to burst your bubble,
> but the PaXtest tests are no real attacks. They are *simulated* attacks. The
> do_mprotect() is there to *simulate* behaviour people found in GLIBC under
> certain circumstances. In other words: This is how certain applications
> behave when run on exec-shield. They complained that PaXtest showed
> inaccurate results on exec-shield. Since the purpose of PaXtest is to show
> accurate results, the lack thereof has been fixed.


And people complains that nobody uses pax....
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