From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 20 12:12:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25545 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25540 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:12:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01354; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:11:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:11:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199807201911.PAA01354@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brett Glass Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The 99,999-bug question: Why can you execute from the stack? In-Reply-To: <199807201732.LAA20377@lariat.lariat.org> References: <199807200140.TAA06705@lariat.lariat.org> <199807201732.LAA20377@lariat.lariat.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > not so much worse. What I've always wanted (and I find it hard to believe > that no one has done it) is opt for an OS written in a language designed > to prevent, rather than encourage, the creation of the sorts of bugs we're > seeing here. So go get an Alpha and run Symbolics Genera on it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message