Re: Non-executable stack

From: db (db_at_traceroute.dk)
Date: 10/29/05

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    To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:42:16 +0000

    On Saturday 29 October 2005 12:36, you wrote:
    > The issue is not one of want, but one of practicality. FreeBSD updates
    > to new versions of gcc relatively frequently, and having to update the
    > propolice patch with each update (or waiting for an update) would be
    > additional work.
    >
    > It appears that propolice has finally made its way into gcc 4.1, so
    > hopefully that will be ready for FreeBSD 7.

    I don't want a gcc fix via propolice, I want kernel support for this. So that
    if a program tries to execute code in the stack or heap it will crash.

    br
    db
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