Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Allow customizable random offset to mmap_base address.

2015-12-11 Thread Kees Cook
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Cashman wrote: > Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) provides a barrier to exploitation > of user-space processes in the presence of security vulnerabilities by making > it more difficult to find desired code/data which could help an attack. This >

[PATCH v6 0/4] Allow customizable random offset to mmap_base address.

2015-12-11 Thread Daniel Cashman
Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) provides a barrier to exploitation of user-space processes in the presence of security vulnerabilities by making it more difficult to find desired code/data which could help an attack. This is done by adding a random offset to the location of regions in