On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:45 +0100, Julien TINNES wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > The randomisation patch series introduces infrastructure and functionality > > that causes certain parts of a process' virtual address space to be > > different for each invocation of the process. The purpose of this is to > > raise the bar on buffer overflow exploits; full randomisation makes it not > > possible to use absolute addresses in the exploit. > > > > I think it is worth mentioning that this is part of PaX ASLR, but with > some changes and simplification.
it actually came from Exec-Shield not PaX > I have some questions about the changes: > > for RANDMMAP why doing randomization in mmap_base() and not in > arch_pick_mmap_layout? You miss a whole case here where legacy layout is > used. legacy layout will want a different randomisation; it'll come in a separate, incremental patch. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
