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RE: Buffer overflow prevention
From: "Avery Buffington" <avery.buffington () fxfn com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:31:49 -0500
no, he ment W^X ("W xor X") but I'm not about to go into a comparison of the two or their pros and cons. second bullet of http://www.openbsd.org/33.html#new will explain W^X but http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2003-04/1678.html will make you chuckle -----Original Message----- From: noir [mailto:noir () gsu linux org tr] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:01 PM To: bugtraq () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Buffer overflow prevention I believe that Mr. Raadt meant PAX by W^X. We all enjoy ascii art but I wanted to note that renaming somebody elses work is not so ethical.
Current thread:
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention, (continued)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Mark Handley (Aug 18)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Crispin Cowan (Aug 18)
- Heterogeneity as a form of obscurity, and its usefulness Bob Rogers (Aug 22)
- Re: Heterogeneity as a form of obscurity, and its usefulness Crispin Cowan (Aug 22)
- Re: Heterogeneity as a form of obscurity, and its usefulness Nicholas Weaver (Aug 22)
- Re: Buffer overflow prevention Patrick Dolan (Aug 14)
- 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 Mariusz Woloszyn (Aug 18)