Announcing security hardened kernels for testing

[Mike Hearn]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:16:55 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> At the Mataro conference we discussed about various proactive security
> enhancements for Ubuntu [1]. Amongst other things we agreed to provide
> a security enhanced kernel that integrates PaX [2]. By separating
> writeable and executable memory, PaX prevents the exploitation of a
> whole class of common security vulnerabilities, the buffer overflows.

Hello,

Why was PaX chosen over exec-shield? The Linux community has much greater
experience with this set of patches than PaX, I know we
already dealt with some of the fallout of that in the Wine project.

thanks -mike