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Ascii-armor
I have applied the exec-shield patch from Ingo Malnar and I am trying to
understand how it works. In the announcement of the patch
(http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=644) Ingo says something about the
ascii-armor area which at i386 is the area 0-16MB. Can anyone briefly
explain me what is this area and why is protected from ascii-based overflow
exploits?
Thank you in advance.
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