ASLR implementation

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi...

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 20:04, Zubin Mithra <zubin.mithra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently read about the Linux kernel implementing ASLR to prevent buffer overflow attacks.

nope...that is done to make symbol address guessing harder....

> I would like to have a look at how this is implemented by reading the kernel source code.
>
> Could someone offer a few pointers on where to start looking?(It would make my work slightly easier.)

try http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.36/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c

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