patch to randomize mmap offsets
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Mon Jan 15 12:04:18 PST 2007
:I pulled this little patch from OpenBSD to randomize mmap offsets as
:per request on projects page, described by
:http://www.openbsd.org/papers/auug04/index.html
:
:-Kevink
:
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:Kevin L. Kane
:kevin.kane at gmail.com
hmm. I'm not a big fan of OpenBSD's randomization code. I'm not
rabidly against the patch but it is a bit hackish. It seems to me
that somthing similar could be implemented simply by having the RTLD
or LIBC code mmap() a randomly sized dead segment, and not have to
build anything into the kernel.
-Matt
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