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

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> 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?

the answer should be in the doc you linked... if you have specific
questions, feel free to ask.

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