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Ubuntu - poorer security than FedoraUbuntu - poorer security than FedoraPosted Jul 17, 2008 15:48 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Ubuntu - poorer security than Fedora by i3839 Parent article: Ubuntu, security response, and community contributions
Other parts of exec-shield, like the 'ASCII armoring' (to make it impossible to embed the address of a function in a shared library in an string and then get it into an overflowed string via C string-handling functions) haven't gone upstream yet :( I wonder why not?
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Ubuntu - poorer security than Fedora Posted Jul 17, 2008 16:04 UTC (Thu) by riel (subscriber, #3142) [Link] IIRC Linus made it clear that he did not want them. I do not remember the reason, but it made sense at the time :)
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