Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 3 *Beta* Availability Announcement

["Jay Lee" <jlee pbu edu>]

taroon-list redhat com said:
>  - Addition of the exec-shield and PIE (Position Independent
>     Executable) features, which provide protection against stack,
>     buffer or function pointer overflows, and against other types
>     of security exploits that rely on overwriting data structures in
>     memory.
>
>  - Addition of NX support for 32-bit x86 architectures in addition to
>     AMD64 and Intel(r) EM64T.  NX technology restricts execution of
>     program code in specific areas of memory such as the stack or
>     the heap, preventing many common buffer overflow security
>     vulnerabilities.

Will 3rd party packages require recompiling in order to take advantage of
ExecShield and NX support?

Jay
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Jay Lee
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Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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