On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga wrote: .. > Also architectures like sparc, sparc64, alpha, hppa and the > upcoming AMD Hammer support W^X [0], which ensures that memory that can > be written by programs cannot be executable at the same time and > vice-versa. At the moment only OpenBSD supports this. This makes > buffer overflows a trifle hard to exploit.
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