Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 02 May 2003 23:48:33 +0200 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Furthermore, the kernel also remaps all PROT_EXEC mappings to the > so-called ASCII-armor area, which on x86 is the addresses 0-16MB. These [snipped] > In the above layout, the highest executable address is 0x01003fff, ie. > every executable address is in the ASCII-armor.
If my math is correct, 0x01000000 is 16 MB boundary 0x01003fff is outside the ASCII-armor.
Another question: Last time I checked, there were some problems with binary only drivers (to name one, NVidia graphics) and a non-executable stack. Has this been resolved?
Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
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