Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking

[Dan Hollis]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > > Your comparing actual security with stack guarding? Stack guarding mearly
> > > makes the attack diffrent.. rootkits are already available to defeat it.
> > url?
> Ugh do you have any idea how hard it is to find 2 year old exploits?
> Heres the best I could find on short notice:
> http://www.insecure.org/sploits/non-executable.stack.problems.html
> http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~mcoogan/bugtraq/msg00335.html

You said there were rootkits specifically targetting stackguard.

These URLs simply describe attacks on stackguard, where are the
stackguard rootkits?

-Dan