Dear Fedora developers or Experts!
Can you tell me if these is an Exec Shield kernel patch for most recent 2.6
series vanilla kernels being able to do full ALSR functionality, including
the relocation of PIE binaries?
When I look at Ingo Molnar's Exec Shield patch web page
(
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/), I got the impression that a
fully featured Exec Shield patch set exists only for the 2.4 series of the
Linux kernels. Am I correct?
Without knowing all the nitty gritty details, I believe this is because a
subset of the initial 2.4 patch is included in upstream 2.6.
I would suggesting asking one of the Fedora kernel guys, or Ingo if you
want to know for sure. This list is primarily for dealing with security
vulnerabilities in Fedora. I doubt anyone on this list knows enough about
the working of Exec Shield to feel comfortable answering your question.
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JB