What is exec-shield

[Guy Fraser]

Vincent wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:52:25 -0700
>Guy Fraser <guy at incentre.net> wrote:
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>>After fighting with prelink, I was finaly able to get wine working 
>>again, by disabling exec-shield in prelink.
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>>This is the first I have heard of it, and I have been working with Linux 
>>since 95, and RHL since 97.
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> It's new to Fedora
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>>What is it for and why would it be wanted?
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>In short it provides protection against exploits specifically stack, buffer and
>function pointer overflows. It is not a full solution to killing all shellcode
>and exploits. But you wont take a significant performance hit so It's worth it.
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>This is a good thing, I hope you re-enable it.
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I would re-enable it if It would let programs run under wine, it seems to think all Win32 applications are bad. :-(

I don't much care for Win32 myself, but until FileMaker Pro and TCM are ported to Linux, I don't have much choice but to use wine.

Cheers