[ubuntu-hardened] Re: Collecting NX information

[John Richard Moser]

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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>As I understand, PT_GNU_STACK uses a single marking to control whether a
>>task gets an executable stack and whether ASLR is applied to the
>>executable.
> 
> 
> you understand wrongly.
> 
> PT_GNU_STACK just sets the exec permission for the stack (and the heap
> now mirrors the stack). Nothing more nothing less.
> 

So then this would be slightly more useful than I had previously
thought, bringing control over the randomization as well?

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