Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds

Marsh Ray (marsh_lin@ad-hoc.gainesville.fl.us)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 11:30:43 -0400


I have a question: why use the stack for that sort of thing
anyway? Wouldn't it be just as easy to use mallocated memory
for the generated code?

- Marsh

From: Simon Kenyon <simon@koala.ie>

>for what it is worth, rob pike and bart locanthi (sp?) of bell labs wrote
>(back in 198x, where x is small) a bitblit implementation which constructed
>the optimal implementation on the stack and then jumped to it
>
>old example i know, but an executable stack does have its uses

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