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

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Fri, 02 May 2003 14:09:54 -0700


Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>>Why is that? And, in particular, why is it "too late to turn it back
>
> mprotect() didn't (and probably still does not) work when you change
> PROT_EXEC.
>

Kernel bug or CPU bug?

-hpa

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