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Re: Buffer overflow prevention
Aug 15 2003 09:54AM
Peter Busser (peter trusteddebian org)
Hi!
> > AFAIK all those combined do bring real security against generic exploits.
> "Real security" is not the word.
Even though PaX is better than W^X, it is far from being perfect.
> PaX / Propolice / W^X / non-exec stacks don't solve bugs. What they do is
> to _abort_ execution of a proces...
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> > AFAIK all those combined do bring real security against generic exploits.
> "Real security" is not the word.
Even though PaX is better than W^X, it is far from being perfect.
> PaX / Propolice / W^X / non-exec stacks don't solve bugs. What they do is
> to _abort_ execution of a proces...
[ more ]