Re: [gentoo-hardened] New x32 ABI

2012-06-09 Thread PaX Team
On 7 Jun 2012 at 22:04, "Tóth Attila" wrote: > I'm just wondering about the security implications of the new ABI. basically that much less entropy in ASLR, otherwise nothing changes i think. > I guess it needs some extra work for Spender and PaxTeam to port Grseurity > to 3.4. i've had mine out

[gentoo-hardened] New x32 ABI

2012-06-07 Thread Tóth Attila
I've just heard about the x32 ABI introduced beginning from kernel version 3.4 and later. http://lwn.net/Articles/456731/ Gentoo has just announced its use of the x32 ABI https://lwn.net/Articles/500482/ I'm just wondering about the security implications of the new ABI. I guess it needs some extra