Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:44:02 -0600 (CST) | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Unexecutable stack |
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Horst von Brand <vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>: >It has _not_ been made harmless, just harder to exploit. And the "fix" >screws up legitimate uses of executing code on the stack. Nothing changes, >as soon as the "fix" becomes widespread. And then everybody pays the cost >of the "fix", and nobody gets any benefit. Loose-loose as I see it.
I disagree. I've worked with executables on stacks before. They are hard to debug, hard to trace, cannot be validated, and can provide a home for memory resident viruses.
I don't want any of the problems caused by executable stacks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil
Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
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