Re: Collecting NX information

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 13:39:58 EST



> As I understand, PT_GNU_STACK uses a single marking to control whether a
> task gets an executable stack and whether ASLR is applied to the
> executable.

you understand wrongly.

PT_GNU_STACK just sets the exec permission for the stack (and the heap
now mirrors the stack). Nothing more nothing less.


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