Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bug exploits

From: Gerhard Mack (gmack@innerfire.net)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 19:34:25 EST


On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > Your comparing actual security with stack guarding? Stack guarding mearly
> > makes the attack diffrent.. rootkits are already available to defeat it.
>
> url?

Ugh do you have any idea how hard it is to find 2 year old exploits?

Heres the best I could find on short notice:

http://www.insecure.org/sploits/non-executable.stack.problems.html
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~mcoogan/bugtraq/msg00335.html

 

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Gerhard Mack

gmack@innerfire.net

<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.

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