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>From John Chronister on Monday, 19 January, 2004: |
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>how do i get stack smashing protection on amd64? i am using the latest |
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>experimental amd64 live cd. |
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>-chron |
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You don't. IIRC, linux sets the stack noexec on amd64, and amd64 processors |
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honor it. Remember the hullaballoo about Microsoft doing the same thing? |
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Linux had it all along; just didn't have the advertising to call it |
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something nifty and have the press talk about it as though it were a Great |
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New Invention. |
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The first noexec-stack that I remember is on Solaris; there may (probably |
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was) an implementation before that. |
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Many thanks to the amd64 kernel hackers! |
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-Joseph |
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Joseph===============================================trelane@××××××××××.net |
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Graduate Student in Physics, Freelance Free Software Developer |
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