From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jun 29 19:08:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01287 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:08:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (nsmart@ts01-03.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01219 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id DAA03866; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 03:03:49 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199806300203.DAA03866@indigo.ie> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 03:03:49 +0000 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh "Re: non-executable stack?" (Jun 29, 10:35am) Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: Warner Losh , Vadim Kolontsov Subject: Re: non-executable stack? Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Jun 29, 10:35am, Warner Losh wrote: } Subject: Re: non-executable stack? [ lots of examples of people writing printable-ASCII shell code ] > Checks for printable vs non-printable are bogus and don't buy any > extra security at the cost of inconvenience. Oh well, there goes another silver bullet. Niall -- Niall Smart. PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message