Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks

From: Dax Kelson (dkelsonat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 12 1998 - 13:57:23 PDT

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A new feature in Solaris 2.6 is the ability to turn off executable stacks.

Just add these lines to /etc/system and reboot

* Turn off executable stacks
set noexec_user_stack = 1


Does anyone know how secure this implementation is?

Dax Kelson
Internet Connect, Inc.

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