[12742] in bugtraq
Re: WordPad/riched20.dll buffer overflow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pedward@WEBCOM.COM)
Fri Nov 26 12:33:36 1999
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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 01:17:50 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <383C2BE8.7BD90AB9@core-sdi.com> from "Gerardo Richarte" at Nov
24, 99 03:14:10 pm
I seem to recall a Linux kernel guru explaining that the x86 MMU doesn't actually
support non-exec pages, or some such. It doesn't support it, or it just doesn't
work right. I remember bringing up the issue of noexec and that was the answer.
--Perry
> Ok, here it is, on page 58, it's talking about Access Control of virtual
> pages, and it says, literally if a page can be read, it can be executed. I
> remember that this took my attention for some days, then I forgot about it, until
> you mentioned it.
>
> richie
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