> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:
>
> > Ingo, do you want protection against shell code injection ? Have the
> > kernel to assign random stack addresses to processes and they won't be
> > able to guess the stack pointer to place the jump.
>
> If your software is broken enough to have buffer overflow bugs, it's
> not entirely unlikely that it leaks the stack address as well (IIRC,
> BIND 8 did).
Leaking the stack address is not a problem in this case, since the next
run will be very->very->very likely different.
- Davide
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