Re: Buffer overflow?

[Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@xxxxxx>]

-On [20030801 08:02], Richard Coleman (richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>Have you given any thought to pulling in the changes that OpenBSD made 
>to harden against buffer overflows (i.e. canary checking)?  They've 
>added some pretty serious mechanisms to make it harder to exploit buffer 
>overflows (and made it turned on by default).

IIRC Hiten is busy working on getting the OpenBSD non-exec stack code
working on DragonFly.

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