Fedora Core 2 Test 2 - delayed

Vincent pros-n-cons at bak.rr.com
Sat Feb 28 08:07:58 UTC 2004


On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:39:50 -0500
"Bruce A. Locke" <blocke at shivan.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 19:39, Vincent wrote:
> 
> > I thought Fedora wasn't vulnerable to that bug due to exec-shield. Packard never
> > saw that one comming!
> 
> This comment makes me curious.  Has anyone been testing the recent user
> space vulnerabilities and seeing if exec-shield + prelink randomization
> prevented at least some of them from being exploited?
> 
> Just curious...
> 
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Yes _some_ have been tested behind the scenes but the results aren't public yet
from what I gather. All I've heard is that X wasn't vuln.
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