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x86 NX supportx86 NX supportPosted Jun 10, 2004 8:34 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)Parent article: x86 NX support
a longstanding x86 security weakness will be no more Is this really true? Pages being non-executable has been implemented by PaX and other patches for years. Linus did not want to merge it because it only changes the way you have to write the exploits, not the possibility of the exploits themselves -- as he convincingly demonstrated on lkml. Has something changed since then or is this security-by-obscurity again?
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