Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
02 May 2003 22:51:43 +0200


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Followup to: <200305021829.h42ITclA000178@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
> By author: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Slightly off-topic, but does anybody know whether IA64 or x86-64 allow
> > you to make the stack non-executable in the same way you can on SPARC?
> >
>
> x86-64 definitely does, and it's the default on Linux/x86-64.

No we had to turn it off and now it's too late to turn it back on again.
There is also one bug left that prevents it.

-Andi
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