Re: Patch 0/6 virtual address space randomisation

[John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>]

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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:45 +0100, Julien TINNES wrote:
> 
>>Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>
>>>The randomisation patch series introduces infrastructure and functionality
>>>that causes certain parts of a process' virtual address space to be
>>>different for each invocation of the process. The purpose of this is to
>>>raise the bar on buffer overflow exploits; full randomisation makes it not
>>>possible to use absolute addresses in the exploit.
>>>
>>
>>I think it is worth mentioning that this is part of PaX ASLR, but with 
>>some changes and simplification.
> 
> 
> it actually came from Exec-Shield not PaX
> 

Yeah, if it came from PaX the randomization would actually be useful.
Sorry, I've just woken up and already explained in another post.

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