ASLR and other hardening methods

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 06:36:47 PST 2014


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Alex Hornung <alex at alexhornung.com> wrote:
> On 18/01/14 09:19, Carsten Mattner wrote:
>> Theo's talk at ruBSD in December reminded me to compare the various
>> Unixes, Linux and Windows in terms of exploit mitigation features.
>>
>> It was a big surprise to me that DragonflyBSD misses out.
> http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commit/911e30e25724984efec56accba87f739cfca2937

Thanks!

There's a libc part of that in another commit isn't it?

Someone with all relevant background info should probably
add a section about DragonflyBSD to that Wikipedia page.

So what other mitigation does OpenBSD have (userspace included)
that is maybe missing in DragonflyBSD?



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