As of Android 2.3, all pre-installed binaries are compiled with NX enabled
by default.

As of Android NDK <http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html> r4, all
third party native applications are compiled with NX enabled by default.

Take care,
-- Nick

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Nathaniel Husted <[email protected]>wrote:

> Based on previously given talks
> (http://jon.oberheide.org/files/shmoo11-teamjoch.pdf) I was under the
> impression that the No eXectue technology on ARM was not used in the
> Android platform. However, based on the recently published security
> documentation (
> https://source.android.com/tech/security/index.html#memory-management-security-enhancements
> ),
> it's stated that this technology is used. I was wondering if someone
> could provide clarification on what exact versions of Android
> implement the NX technology, i.e., is it Android 3.0 + ICS only? Also,
> is there any support for ASLR in the Android platform?  Thanks for any
> information.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathaniel Husted
> Indiana University
>
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