> I thought the main security benefit for randomization of mapped regions was
> for writeable data space anyway. Isn't text space protected by not being
> writeable?
nope that's not correct.
Aside from stack randomization, randomization is to a large degree
intended to make the return-to-libc kind of attacks harder, by not
giving attackers a fixed address to return to. That's all code, nothing
to do with data.
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