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| From | Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? |
| Date | 2017-08-09 20:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ucDqW-243-23@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Le 09/08/2017 à 17:05, Dan Ritter a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 10:48:24AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Interesting Thomas, but what the heck is PIE? It is explained in the link posted by Thomas. > It's a security measure. No, PIE is not a security measure per se. It just allows to map an run the executable code anywhere in the address space instead of at a fixed location, which is useful for shared libraries for example. This feature is also used by Address Space Layout Randomization, which is a security measure.
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Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-08-09 16:40 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-09 16:50 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-09 17:10 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-08-09 20:00 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2017-08-09 17:30 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-10 02:30 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-10 10:10 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-08-12 13:20 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-12 16:10 +0200
Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-10 10:00 +0200
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