Le 09/08/2017 à 17:05, Dan Ritter a écrit :
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 10:48:24AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Interesting Thomas, but what the heck is PIE?
It is explained in the link posted by Thomas.
It's a security measure.
No, PIE is not a security measure per se. It just allows to map an run
the executable code anywhere in the address space instead of at a fixed
location, which is useful for shared libraries for example. This feature
is also used by Address Space Layout Randomization, which is a security
measure.
