Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:42:16 +0000 From: db <db@traceroute.dk> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-executable stack Message-ID: <200510291242.16461.db@traceroute.dk> In-Reply-To: <20051029073411.F11965@odysseus.silby.com> References: <200510270608.51571.db@traceroute.dk> <200510271511.36004.db@traceroute.dk> <20051029073411.F11965@odysseus.silby.com>
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On Saturday 29 October 2005 12:36, you wrote: > The issue is not one of want, but one of practicality. FreeBSD updates > to new versions of gcc relatively frequently, and having to update the > propolice patch with each update (or waiting for an update) would be > additional work. > > It appears that propolice has finally made its way into gcc 4.1, so > hopefully that will be ready for FreeBSD 7. I don't want a gcc fix via propolice, I want kernel support for this. So that if a program tries to execute code in the stack or heap it will crash. br db
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