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Re: Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks

From: emarshal () LOGIC NET (Edward S. Marshall)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 21:03:28 -0500


On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Dax Kelson wrote:

A new feature in Solaris 2.6 is the ability to turn off executable stacks.

[...]

Does anyone know how secure this implementation is?


More importantly, does anyone know whether this breaks anything, like
early versions of Solar Designer's Linux patch did?

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Current thread:

Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Niall Smart (Jun 10)
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group (Jun 11)
  - Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation abc () RALPH ML ORG (Jun 12)
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- Re: Full Armor.... Fool Proof etc... bugs Florian Weimer (Jun 12)
- Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks Dax Kelson (Jun 12)
  - Re: Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks Edward S. Marshall (Jun 14)
    - Re: Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks Casper Dik (Jun 16)
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Darren Reed (Jun 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation tqbf () pobox com (Jun 11)
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Niall Smart (Jun 13)
  - Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Tim Newsham (Jun 26)
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- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation tqbf () pobox com (Jun 14)
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Niall Smart (Jun 28)
  - Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Tim Newsham (Jun 28)
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