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RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/33.html,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.9 -r1.10
--- www/33.html 2003/03/25 23:48:46 1.9
+++ www/33.html 2003/03/25 23:49:38 1.10
@@ -80,11 +80,12 @@
enabled by default.
-
W^X (pronounced: "W xor X") binaries on ELF architectures. This is
-a fine-grained memory permissions layout, ensuring that memory which can be
-written to by application programs can not be executable at the same time
-and vice versa. This raises the bar on potential buffer overflows and other
-attacks.
+W^X (pronounced: "W xor X") binaries on architectures capable of
+pure execute-bit support in the MMU (sparc, sparc64, alpha,
+hppa). This is a fine-grained memory permissions layout, ensuring that
+memory which can be written to by application programs can not be
+executable at the same time and vice versa. This raises the bar on
+potential buffer overflows and other attacks.
Still more reduction in setuid and setgid binaries, and more chroot
@@ -364,7 +365,7 @@
alt="OpenBSD">
www@openbsd.org
-$OpenBSD: 33.html,v 1.9 2003/03/25 23:48:46 henning Exp $
+$OpenBSD: 33.html,v 1.10 2003/03/25 23:49:38 deraadt Exp $