loader: Mark the stack as executable if possible.

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Nov 15 12:42:11 CST 2006


Peter Beutner <p.beutner at gmx.net> writes:

> Besides i think it's a bad idea to blindly mark pages executable like this:
>
> "hey, we successfully catched an attempted buffer overflow attack, thanks for NX. But lets
> ignore it and let the code run anyway ..." :p

Well, the next step can be to pop up a message box of some kind, and
let the user decide whether to proceed or not. It still gives more
control than blindly making all pages executable from the start...

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Alexandre Julliard
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