Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer

[linux-os]

Gentlemen,

Isn't the return address on the stack an offset in the
code (.text) segment?

How would a random stack-pointer value help? I think you would
need to start a program at a random offset, not the stack!
No stack-smasher that worked would care about the value of
the stack-pointer.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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