Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 16:09:54 EST

Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>>Why is that? And, in particular, why is it "too late to turn it back
>
> mprotect() didn't (and probably still does not) work when you change
> PROT_EXEC.
>

Kernel bug or CPU bug?

        -hpa

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