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SubjectRe: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)
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?

bye, Roman
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