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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:43:56 -0700
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: Ed Alley <alley1@llnl.gov>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: execve() security question
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>	In my opinion, no legitimate code should ever need
>to run in the data or the stack of a process. (This is
>probably a hardware problem, however.)

   What about the signal trampoline?

-DG

David Greenman
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President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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