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Linux autorun vulnerabilities?

Linux autorun vulnerabilities?

Posted Feb 11, 2011 22:37 UTC (Fri) by kees (subscriber, #27264)
Parent article: Linux autorun vulnerabilities?

The ASLR predictability is actually a weakness in the NX-emulation patch carried by Fedora and Ubuntu. If this was done on a PAE system (even 32bit), it would have been pretty unfeasible. That said, it's still good research. I wrote up a little more about it here:

http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2011/02/11/shaping-t...


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