Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)

Roman Zippel
2005-02-03T14:54:51Z

Hi,

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Peter Busser wrote:

> - What happens when you run existing commercial applications which have not
> been compiled using GCC.

>From http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/pax.txt:

The goal of the PaX project is to research various defense mechanisms
against the exploitation of software bugs that give an attacker arbitrary
read/write access to the attacked task's address space.

Could you please explain how PaX makes such applications secure?

bye, Roman