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J.A. Magallon wrote: | On 08.17, Aleksander Adamowski wrote: | |>How about adding ProPolice stack protection to stock Mandrake GCC? | | In linux, you can do 2 things: | - shoot yourself on the feet, so you just break your own account. | - try to get root first, to make something useful with a buffer | overflow. | I see no gain here. Some pointer to more info ?
Well, I do - you usually use buffer overflow to gain root :-) E.g. by overflowing the buffer of some process running as root (was popular with sendmail, lpr, ...)
Jan
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