Position Independent Executables (PIE)

Xose Vazquez Perez xose at wanadoo.es
Fri Oct 10 19:11:11 UTC 2003


shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:

> will this be included in other kernels too?
> 
> 
> http://www.networknews.co.uk/News/1143925
> 
> The RHEL 3 server operating system, due to ship within weeks, includes a
> feature called Position Independent Executables (PIE). This is a
> modification to the Linux kernel developed by Red Hat to reduce the
> threat from worms and other buffer-overflow based attacks.

I think that "Position Independent Executables (PIE)" is the same than
mingo's work called exec-shield http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield .
And it is included in Fedora.

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