Re: How to enable/disable security features on mmap() ?

Emmanuel Fleury
2005-12-08T14:22:33Z

Hi,

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> realistically the first one is easy if your hw supports the NX bit
> (x86/x86-64). Some of the other randomisations are present in the 2.6.x
> kernels.
>
> Or run a kernel from Fedora Core, or a kernel with the PaX patches to
> get all you're asking for.

In fact, I'm more asking about how to turn it off. These features are
already included in the Linux kernel (2.6.14.x at least) but I didn't
find any CONFIG_XXX variables to configure these features.

(Well, I'm not sure about the NX bit support)

Regards
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Emmanuel Fleury

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