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pax : a strong protection against buffer overflows
PaX implements address randomization and non-executable stack and heap, which
results in a strong protection against buffer overflows.
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| Last update: | 2006/01/22 |
| Description: | a strong protection against buffer overflows |
| Author(s): | The PaX Team |
| Conflicts with: | strict-overcommit, tunable-address-space |
| See also: | 3G+pax, oc+pax, grsecurity |
| Abstract: | PaX implements address randomization and non-executable stack and heap, which
results in a strong protection against buffer overflows.
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Notes
Due to its nature, this patch conflicts with many other patches, but conflicts
are relatively easy to fix. It is also implemented in the grsecurity patch.
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(C) Willy Tarreau - 2008-06-01