From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261581AbUL3JSo (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:18:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261642AbUL3JRX (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:17:23 -0500 Received: from mail.outpost24.com ([212.214.12.146]:51409 "EHLO klippan.outpost24.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261581AbUL3JMV (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:12:21 -0500 Message-ID: <41D3C66F.5070909@outpost24.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:12:15 +0100 From: David Jacoby User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Stack guards, PaX and such Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi everyone! I hope you had an nice and relaxing x-mas and are ready for a nice new years eve. I just have a little question, i really dont if this has ben discussed before, but if it has im really sorry. Why aint there any stack protectors such as PaX or something similar on the Linux kernel? Couldent it be an idea for the Linux Development Team to create something that will protect against the most known attacks? Im not talking about preventling everything because thats impossible and there will always be some way to trick these protectors. But remove most of the "attacks". //David -- Outpost24 AB David Jacoby Research & Development Office: +46-455-612310 Mobile: +46-455-612311 (www.outpost24.com) (dj@outpost24.com)