Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:39:47 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer) |
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Hi,
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Peter Busser wrote:
> - What happens when you run existing commercial applications which have not > been compiled using GCC.
From http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/pax.txt:
The goal of the PaX project is to research various defense mechanisms against the exploitation of software bugs that give an attacker arbitrary read/write access to the attacked task's address space.
Could you please explain how PaX makes such applications secure?
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