On 25/03/13 13:52, PaX Team wrote: > On 25 Mar 2013 at 9:01, Kfir Lavi wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm looking for a way to reduce glibc code size. >> It can be a way to make system smaller and minimize the impact >> of attack vectors in glibc, as in return-to-libc attack. > > study this and draw your conclusions whether the whole exercise is > worth it or not: > > https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-security-11/q-exploit-hardening-made-easy > >
This paper seems interesting against Return oriented programming: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~s/teaching/cs460/2012-fall/ROPdefender.pdf
