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Subject: Re: Secure 2.4.x kernel - stack
From: Alvin Oga <aoga () Maggie ! Linux-Consulting ! com>
Date: 2001-12-25 1:15:24
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hi ya
> Also, when you look at how memory is laid out, having two stacks
> is problematic. Under linux, it looks like this:
>
> -------- -------
> | KERNEL | | stack | <---- grows downward
> |--------| -------
> | |
> | user | ----> -------
> | | | brk | <---- grows upward
> -------- -------
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/immunix/StackGuard/usenixsc98_html/node5.html
kernel security patches/additions...
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Harden/kernel.gwif.html
have fun
alvin
http://www.Linux-Sec.net
> Stacks, in general, grow downward. So you'd need to further
> split the process memory area, leaving even less precious
> address space for malloc and friends. Even if you could make one
> grow upward (PowerPC, for example, doesn't know about the stack)
> you'd have to worry about collisions again.
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