Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

Björn Persson bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Thu Apr 11 17:52:55 UTC 2013


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:19:46PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > With the current setup, we get "mutating ASLR" when compiled as PIE,
> 
> Surely ... you get "mutating ASLR" only when compiled as PIE
> *and* the server process restarts itself between each connection or at
> least on a regular basis (ie. it's a forking or pre-forking server, or
> the server is started on each connection by inetd/systemd)?

Or it crashes and gets restarted every time the attacker fails to guess
the addresses.

Björn Persson
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