PaX in FreeBSD like grsecurity and OpenBSD

Willem Hendriks willem.hendriks.reg at xs4all.nl
Sat Dec 2 00:02:48 PST 2006


OpenBSD has:

Memory protection purify
 * W^X
 * .rodata segment
 * Guard pages
 * Randomized malloc()
 * Randomized mmap()
 * atexit() and stdio protection

In grsecurity there is PaX:

http://pax.grsecurity.net/

Can these features really prevent some exploits?

I tried to search equivalants in FreeBSD.

Greetings Willem Hendriks


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