[Gllug] just preaching to the converted !

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Wed Oct 26 00:37:38 UTC 2005


Nix writes:

>(This is just one of the reasons why I prefer *not* to use precompiled
>binaries. I'm wondering about the feasibility of adding random
>perturbations to stack frames as well, done with zero overhead by a
>suitable rand() call in GCC... hm, I shall have to hack that up.)

Yeah, but don't you already have screwy calling conventions anyway?
So even without the stack randomization, exploits won't typically
work on your systems anyway...

Tet
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