Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:49:43 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Unexecutable stack |
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Khimenko Victor wrote: > > In <38673F5C.1010C79A@katren.ru> Mike Karmyshev (mike@katren.ru) wrote: > > Hello. > > I've recently played a bit with Solar Designer's patch and it looks that > > it doesn't have any > > significant overhead. Shoudn't it be in the kernel by default(at > > least,SECURE_STACK)? > > Last time when this question was raised was more then year ago (if I recall > correctly) and Linus said that his feeling about unexecutable stack is that > it does not make exploits impossible but insted give you false sense of safety. > So answer is "no". You can add such patch by hands if you wish...
And it would prevent anything from working which is emplying the stack as a trampoline to pass around ... guess what ... for example thrown exceptions.
-- Marcin Dalecki
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