Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows

From: Jeremiah Cornelius (jeremiah_at_nur.net)
Date: 02/24/04

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    To: "Helmut Hauser" <helmut_hauser@hotmail.com>, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:14:23 -0800

    > There is an updated whitepaper describing the changes of WinXP SP2 which
    > describes the Execution Protection (NX) technology introduced in this sp
    > (and also in the Service Pack 1 for Server 2003) at pages 43-47
    >
    > Link:
    >
    > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bd948d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=en
    >
    >
    So far, this breaks Winsock for Cygwin, and completely hoses MS's own SFU 3.5...

    We'll see what Beta 2 does, but I bet it means re-engineering the network access in Cyg.
     

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