On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Eric J. Pinnell wrote: > Sparc's have the whole concept of execution windows, that Alphas don't. > That makes it a tad bit harder. However, up until Digital Unix 4.0E there > wasn't even an executable stack, period. Java came along and made DEC > (now Compaq) change all that. I doubt think NetBSD on the Alpha has had > that limitation. > > But it's still the same deal. Script kiddies and bots pick on X86.
totally. the windowed stack frames that ultrasparcs use are a big fucking pain in the ass. they can be compromised, but it takes a lot of work. it took me two weeks to figure out just exactly how the fuck it actually worked in practice. hence the reason i was dissapointed in that talk at defcon 8. i wanted someone to talk about techniques for defeating stack overflow protection, and not just how to defeat the windowing. -- christian void - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.morphine.com/void/ gpg key available on request _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
