Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Apr 11 17:54:55 UTC 2013



Am 11.04.2013 19:52, schrieb Björn Persson:
> 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

which is exactly the goal ASLR is desigend for

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