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Re: Buffer overflow prevention
From: Darren Reed <avalon () caligula anu edu au>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:13:25 +1000 (Australia/ACT)
Yet, persistantly we have been flooded by PAX supporters demanding that we should give credit to the PAX people for the ideas in W^X. When we had NOT known about PAX, and when W^X does NOT technically do what PAX does. How is it that out of one side of the mouth PAX people say that things which I say are not possible on i386 using W^X (full per-page X bit) are possible using PAX, and then the other side of the mouth says that W^X is just derived from PAX ideas?
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Oh? So to get their reward, they send out their drones to assault other projects, and get credit that is not theirs?
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I urge the PAX authors to get their community's rabid foaming under control.
Damn, this looks like textbook OpenBSD methodology for getting a vendor to release hardware documentation or otherwise do what OpenBSD wants. I guess it's a methodology that's only acceptable when it's being done for the "noble" goals of the OpenBSD project and not when it is being targetted at OpenBSD itself. I suppose you might say this is a case of OpenBSD getting back what it dishes out to others. I sincerely doubt that this will have any impact, however, on the behaviour of the OpenBSD drones. But one can still hope. Now if I could think of a security-related angle, this email might even have a chance of ending up being sent to the bugtraq list... (o)
Current thread:
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention, (continued)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Tom 7 (Aug 15)
- RE: Buffer overflow prevention noir (Aug 15)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Theo de Raadt (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Peter Busser (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention noir (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Theo de Raadt (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention pageexec (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Mariusz Woloszyn (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention pageexec (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention pageexec (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Theo de Raadt (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Darren Reed (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Peter Busser (Aug 19)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Theo de Raadt (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Glynn Clements (Aug 19)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Crispin Cowan (Aug 19)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Anil Madhavapeddy (Aug 19)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Mariusz Woloszyn (Aug 19)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Mark Tinberg (Aug 19)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention pageexec (Aug 19)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Theo de Raadt (Aug 19)