[Info-vax] An old VMS vulnerability, was: Re: Calling standards, was: Re: Byte range locking - was Re: Oracle

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-29, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <o1jurj$mjd$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>Yes, that's a much better approach.
>>
>>I hope that sometime over the last 8 years a patch has now made the
>>memory area containing that buffer (as well as the logical name table
>>memory) no-execute...
>
><ROLLEYES>
>

If that's directed towards me, I would like to know what I am missing
because asking for the memory mapped to data structures to be made
non-executable is a very reasonable thing to ask for.

Simon.

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