Re: Here is my plan for firewall implementation

["Paul D. Robertson" <proberts () clark net>]

On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Adam Shostack wrote:

> Casper Dik has posted a tool to Bugtraq to turn off stack
> executability on Sparcs.  It invalidates the standard egg, but there
> may be ways around it.  (If a user can overwrite arbitrary memory, he
> can probably do arbitrary things.  The 'correct' solution is to

There was one from 'Solar Designer' earlier this year, or late last year 
which did the same thing on Linux/Intel.  If anyone has both pieces of 
code somewhere, as well as some further discussion, I'd appreciate a pointer.

Paul
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