[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX



On Wednesday 05 November 2003 07:28, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:49:39AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 pageexec@freemail.hu wrote:
> > > [...]
> >
> > [...]
>
> Please, guys, don't have your discussion here. I don't think we really
> care about the differences between PaX and exec-shield. Debian is not,
> and, to the best of my knowledge, will not, choose one for its kernels,
> so there is no need to prove that one or the other is better.

Well, I for one would love to see a security announcement one day, which 
contains something like: 

"All users running the standard Debian kernel are not affected, since the 
special security features the Debian kernel contains prevent the 
exploit/attack in question." :)

Cheers,
Yven

-- 
Yven Johannes Leist - leist@xnap.org
http://www.xnap.org/leist/



Reply to: