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Re: Buffer overflow prevention
From: "Matt D. Harris" <vesper () depraved org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:09:16 -0400
Theo de Raadt wrote:
I believe the best protection (at this time) is to combine ProPolice with a W^X technology.
Solaris 2.6 and above also support a kernel variable which can be set via /etc/system called "noexec_user_stack", which can make the stack for userland processes non-executable by default. Note that this behavior is the default for 64-bit binaries in Solaris 7, 8, and 9, and this kernel variable forces the behavior for 32-bit binaries. I run all sorts of odd software and have never had an issue with having this always turned on for all of my systems.
Current thread:
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention, (continued)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Crispin Cowan (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Peter Busser (Aug 15)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Crispin Cowan (Aug 14)
- RE: Buffer overflow prevention Lance James (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Patrick Dolan (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Jedi/Sector One (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Stephen Clowater (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Peter Busser (Aug 15)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Solar Designer (Aug 15)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Peter Busser (Aug 15)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Mariusz Woloszyn (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Theo de Raadt (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Matt D. Harris (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention sauron (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Timo Sirainen (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Jedi/Sector One (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Peter Busser (Aug 15)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Theo de Raadt (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Jedi/Sector One (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Miod Vallat (Aug 14)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Peter Busser (Aug 15)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention stealth (Aug 15)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Mark Tinberg (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Crispin Cowan (Aug 18)