Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Unexecutable Stack / Buffer Overflow Exploits... | Date | Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:46:43 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > I disagree. The patch actually makes creating this type of attack much > > harder, and in some cases impossible. > > "Much harder" how? Instead of returning to some doctored code on the stack, > you just return to the start of system(3) or some such. Sure, different
Tricky. The code maps libraries at 0x00[something] by choice which makes the construct very tricky.
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