Re: Pentium DEATH in user-mode

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Sun, 9 Nov 1997 18:27:59 -0500


> Note that this bug means ANY buffer overflow bug, even on non-setuid apps,
> is now an entry point for an attacker to crash your machine. Got users on
> your system who wrote their own CGI apps in C? Ouch. Let's make that
> non-executable stack patch part of the mainstream kernel.

It would prolly already be in the kernel if it didn't break trampolines.