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