Exec Shield is a project started at Red Hat, Inc in late 2002 with the aim of reducing the risk of worm or other automated remote attacks on Linux systems...
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Executable-space protection (section Exec Shield)
well. Thus, in these situations, Exec Shield's schemes fails. This is the cost of Exec Shield's low overhead. Exec Shield checks for two ELF header markings...
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(also known as non-exec) Exec Shield Exec (errand service) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Exec. If an internal link...
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involve, among other measures, applying a patch to the kernel such as Exec Shield or PaX; closing open network ports; and setting up intrusion detection...
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is allowed and executable pages are placed. This scheme was used in Exec Shield. Linker changes are generally required to separate data from code (such...
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in June 2005. The PaX and Exec Shield patchsets to the Linux kernel provide more complete implementations. The Exec Shield patch for Linux supplies 19...
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scheduler SCHED_DEADLINE SCHED_FIFO SCHED_RR Security Modules: AppArmor Exec Shield seccomp SELinux Smack Tomoyo Linux Linux PAM Device drivers 802.11 graphics...
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enhance thread handling. He also wrote a kernel security feature called "Exec Shield", which prevents stack-based buffer overflow exploits in the x86 architecture...
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operating systems, such as OpenBSD with its W^X feature, and Linux with the Exec Shield or PaX patches, may also limit the length of the code segment, as specified...
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, also known as BCBS, BCBSA, or The Blues, is a United States-based federation with 34 independent and locally-operated...
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