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Re: Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward S. Marshall)
Sun Jun 14 23:54:22 1998

Date: 	Sun, 14 Jun 1998 21:03:28 -0500
Reply-To: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@LOGIC.NET>
From: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@LOGIC.NET>
X-To:         Dax Kelson <dkelson@INCONNECT.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980612145315.1500Q-100000@brookie.inconnect.com>

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Dax Kelson wrote:
> A new feature in Solaris 2.6 is the ability to turn off executable stacks.
[...]
> Does anyone know how secure this implementation is?

More importantly, does anyone know whether this breaks anything, like
early versions of Solar Designer's Linux patch did?

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