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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a DEP (Data Execution Protection) option for Gentoo?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:17:37
Message-Id: 200603271412.05915.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a DEP (Data Execution Protection) option for Gentoo? by Richard Fish
1 On Monday 27 March 2006 07:57, Richard Fish wrote:
2 > On 3/26/06, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > > The subject says it all. I've done some spelunking through
4 > > /usr/src/linux/.config, and I don't see anything relavant.
5 >
6 > It's enabled by default. If you don't want it, you need to boot with
7 > the "noexec=off" kernel option.
8 >
9
10 on AMD64, but x86 doesn't have the NX bit, so a hardened kernel might be the
11 best solution.
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