On 08/09/2017 10:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 09 August 2017 10:31:48 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 慕 冬亮 <mudonglianga...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> When does Debian Team, or Security Team decide to enable PIE by >>> default? >> I guess it was one year ago. At least that's the dates one can see on >> https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/PIEByDefaultTransition >> > Interesting Thomas, but what the heck is PIE? I know about PAE, but PIE? > Whats it do? Searching the above wiki returned only this thread. Please take a look at the following URL:
https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening#DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_PIE_.28gcc.2Fg.2B-.2B-_-fPIE_-pie.29 It is a security feature which combines with ASLR to do full address space randomization. > Thanks, you too. >> Have a nice day :) >> >> Thomas > > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- ----------------------- My best regards to you. No System Is Safe! Dongliang Mu