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Date:      Thu, 3 Sep 1998 07:53:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        joelh@gnu.org
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, eivind@yes.no, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF binaries size
Message-ID:  <199809030753.AAA23003@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809030352.WAA10664@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Sep 2, 98 10:52:06 pm

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> > For a system to be secure, you must not permit code to be
> > written to by the process, only data.
> 
> Why?

To prevent stack-overflow from resulting in executable code.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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