Re: Stopping buffer-overflow security exploits using page protection

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 29 2000 - 09:55:27 EST

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> Please see http://technocrat.net/964824712/ . Is there any good
> reason that we can not run Linux executables with the execute permission
> turned off, by default, on all stack and data pages? Wouldn't this stop

Yes: x86 doesnt support read without execute

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