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From: Pavel Labushev <p.labushev@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:20:30
Message-Id: 4D6A6B6D.9090104@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile. by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 27.02.2011 21:53, Anthony G. Basile пишет:
2
3 > An example of where it does is an attempt to defeat address space
4 > randomization by brute force. 32-bit address space is only 4G which is
5 > not impossibly large for success by brute force while 64-bits is about
6 > 10^19. A lot harder.
7
8 Another point: UDEREF on x86 is more reliable than on amd64. Choose x86 if
9 your big concern is to protect the kernel from userland (like, if you use
10 privilege separation/revocation not just because it looks fancy on paper).

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile. "Tóth Attila" <atoth@××××××××××.hu>