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Exec Shield for the Linux Kernel
DarkOx writes "There is a new patch from Ingo Molnar which can prevent overflow attacks. The scoop from KernelTrap is as follows: Ingo Molnar has announced a new kernel-based security feature for Linux/x86 called 'Exec Shield'. He describes the patch, which is against the 2.4.20-rc1 kernel, as: 'The exec-shield feature provides protection against stack, buffer or function pointer overflows, and against other types of exploits that rely on overwriting data structures and/or putting code into those structures. The patch also makes it harder to pass in and execute the so-called 'shell-code' of exploits. The patch works transparently, ie. no application recompilation is necessary.'"
prevent people from logging into X as root and screwing up their system.
A cure for stupidity is a many-splendored thing - Publius Julius Caesar on the day before the ides of March ## B.C.
FP!!!!! (well, hopefully so... but my browser is taking forever to do anything with this new patch...)
You do realise this kind of advancement would not be possible with out assistance from highly successful companies like SC...
Hrm...
"Shit, spaceballs, there goes the planet" --apes
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
You're forgetting XBill.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Another saturday night spent on
I stopped wearing a seatbelt as soon as I got a car with an airbag. And now that I have a car with EIGHT (count 'em) airbags and ABS brakes I drive like Mario Andretti. Only without all the cologne.
Actually, I was trying to be Insightful, not Funny.
My name is Igno Molnar
You kill -9 my ppid
prepare to die!
I hate to boast but I have a "Moving to Linux" project in the works to create the functionality of Windows in Linux. It doesn't mean that Linux will be as easy as Windows but I'm just trying to "create functionality" and document it.