Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bug exploits

From: David Huggins-Daines (dhd@eradicator.org)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 22:20:37 EST

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Dan Aloni <karrde@callisto.yi.org> writes:

> This preliminary, small patch prevents execution of system calls which
> were executed from a writable segment.

How does signal return work, then?

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