[Info-vax] Next release of OpenVMS x86

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-10, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> ASLR has been readily defeatable in the real world. Is it smoke 
> and mirrors, or is it snake oil. It certainly isn't the panacea 
> it is often claimed to be. 
>

It's neither. It's another tool in a chain of tools that an attacker
should have to overcome to actually compromise the system.

Unfortunately, given the lack of such tools in the VMS world, it's
a hell of a lot easier to actually compromise a VMS system than some
other operating systems once you find an initial flaw in VMS.

Simon.

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