Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:44:28 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness |
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Hi!
> > nor will they work if the sysadmin applies a security update and glibc > > or another library changes one page in size. Or changes the stack rlimit > > or .. or .. > > Now, i figured out, there is a certain reasonable safety gap which works > for people, because the libraries depended on are well known. > > What happens with AS randomisation, is that the variance is simply too > large. But what is more important, is that vendors do modifications > which change the amount of randomisation, which means that potentially
Complain to vendors, not here.
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