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SubjectRe: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:18:27PM +1000, pageexec@freemail.hu wrote:
> your concerns would be valid if this was impossible to achieve by an
> exploit, sadly, you'd be wrong too, it's possible to force an exploited
> application to call something like dl_make_stack_executable() and then
> execute the shellcode.

If you can call mprotect() with a protected environment to unprotect
it, you can as easily call exec.

OG.
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