From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 3 00:55:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA07747 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07742 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:55:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03599; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:54:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd003574; Thu Sep 3 00:54:02 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA23003; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:53:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809030753.AAA23003@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ELF binaries size To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 07:53:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, eivind@yes.no, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809030352.WAA10664@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Sep 2, 98 10:52:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message