On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:29:15 -0500 James Drabb <JDrabb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 : ( It will work on linux just fine. I beleive this is a 'patch' for 386 that all other arch's and kernels have supported forever, AMD and Intel are behind here. but once its put in the hardware using it is trivial. for IA-32 and AMD-32 there is software workarounds like exec-shield, mprotect(), pax, propolice and SElinux using a type of jail to contain the problem. So not only is linux going to have it but its going to do better AFIK. > > 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 : ) > > Jim Drabb
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