Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 May 2003 23:22:24 -0700 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | Re: about buffer overflow. |
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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:00:47AM +0300, Halil Demirezen wrote: > yes that is interesting, however, what i want to learn, clearly, is > this patch available from 2.4.20-rc1 at every default linux kernel > from this moment on?
It (ExecShield0 is *not* in the mainline kernel at this time. I don't know when (or even if) it'll be added to the mainline kernels either.
Red Hat's Rawhide kernels (2.4.20-1.1990 for example) seem to have it, but those are experimental kernels that are not for production use. I guess time will tell whether Red Hat ships ExecShield by default in their next release.
BTW, another option is the pageexec ("PaX") patch: http://pageexec.virtualave.net/ (warning: this page has pop-up windows)
and that's integrated into a more comprehensive security patch, grsecurity: http://www.grsecurity.net/
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