On Monday 23 January 2012 14:37:40 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno lun, 23/01/2012 alle 20.26 +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld ha scritto: > > When ASLR is turned on, the .text section of executables compiled with > > PIE is given a randomized base address. When ASLR is off or when PIE > > is not used, the base address is predictable, so it's easy to find > > where to write into. > > Yup, I know that. I was just making sure that the actual prevention came > from ASLR and not PIE by itself. Both because there is at least one > sci-math package that cannot build with ASLR (randomize_va_space) turned > on
emacs is known to crap itself when building with ASLR too, and the existing workarounds (just like its own build system) tend to be fragile :( -mike
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