Re: Unexecutable stack

Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:44:02 -0600 (CST)

Horst von Brand <vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>:
>It has _not_ been made harmless, just harder to exploit. And the "fix"
>screws up legitimate uses of executing code on the stack. Nothing changes,
>as soon as the "fix" becomes widespread. And then everybody pays the cost
>of the "fix", and nobody gets any benefit. Loose-loose as I see it.

I disagree. I've worked with executables on stacks before. They are hard
to debug, hard to trace, cannot be validated, and can provide a home
for memory resident viruses.

I don't want any of the problems caused by executable stacks.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
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