Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 13:11:21 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buffer overruns Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970210131120.00a34940@dimaga.com>
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At 11:14 PM 2/9/97 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: >The easiest way to close all this bugs is to make the stack non executable >(from a processor standpoint) but I'm not sure you can do it in Intel >processors. Yes, you can. This, however, involve a lot more segment operations than FreeBSD presently use, which will seriously hurt performance, as well as being a pain to implement. Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org
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