[LUAU] no secure kernels

Chris Wong wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu
Thu Jan 28 08:42:05 PST 1999


On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 bbraun at sparcy.synack.net wrote:

> Also, I would strongly recommend looking at Solar Designer's
> secure linux patches.  This may or may not be for you, but take a
> look at: http://www.false.com/security/linux/
> Does some things to prevent stack execution (some saftey from
> buffer overflow exploits) and the like.

What I don't understand is why Linus dosen't apply a secure patch directly
to the kernel already. Making the statck non-executable would probably
solve 95% of all security exploits.





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