Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:15:58 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode |
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On 11/10/2009 09:52 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > - last, the probability of having an NX page just after an > executable one seems too tight to me to even constitute > an attack vector ! BTW, I'm not even certain that all CPUs > correctly implement this check ! >
Do you have *any* *evidence* *whatsoever* for that assertion?!
I personally will consider something that doesn't implement proper security check to be a potential security hole and will NAK the patch.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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