On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 02:29, James Drabb wrote: > Has anyone hear about this: > http://tinyurl.com/zllg > > What about support for Linux? This could come in very handy and I > certainly do not want to see this as some MS only feature : ( > > One quote from the article: > > Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD says it has included code in all its 64-bit > Athlon and Opteron-brand processors that Microsoft soon plans to use to > make it far more difficult for hackers to exploit buffer overflows -- > one of the most widespread computer security holes. > > It sounds like this code is already there. Any support in Linux yet? > It would be nice if this support was in Linux first : ) Old news. Sounds like its talking about the non-executable stack support, which Linux amd64 has supported for a long time. Dave
