Some operating systems, such as OpenBSD with its W ^ X feature, and Linux with the Exec Shield or PaX patches, may also limit the length of the code segment, as specified by the CS register, to disallow execution of code in modifiable regions of the address space.

The W ^ X, Exec Shield, and PaX mechanisms described above emulate per-page non-execute support on machines x86 processors lacking the NX bit by setting the length of the code segment, with a performance loss and a reduction in the available address space.

PIE binaries are used in some security-focused Linux distributions to allow PaX or Exec Shield to use address space layout randomization to prevent attackers from knowing where existing executable code is during a security attack using exploits that rely on knowing the offset of the executable code in the binary, such as return-to-libc attacks.

This may involve, among other measures, applying a patch to the kernel such as Exec Shield or PaX ; closing open network ports ; and setting up intrusion-detection systems, firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems.

Prior to the onset of this feature within the hardware, various operating systems attempted to emulate this feature through software, such as W ^ X or Exec Shield.

Red Hat kernel developer Ingo Molnar released a Linux kernel patch named Exec Shield to approximate and utilize NX functionality on 32-bit x86 CPUs.

The Exec Shield patch was released to the Linux kernel mailing list on May 2, 2003.

For legacy CPUs without an NX bit, Exec Shield fails to protect pages below the code segment limit ; an mprotect () call to mark higher memory, such as the stack, executable will mark all memory below that limit executable as well.

SEGMEXEC does not rely on such volatile systems as that used in Exec Shield, and thus does not encounter conditions in which finegrained NX bit emulation cannot be enforced ; it does, however, have the halving of virtual address space mentioned above.

Exec Shield supplies executable markings.

Exec Shield only checks for two ELF header markings, which dictate whether the stack or heap needs to be executable.

This change is similar to the Exec Shield NX implementation, and the OpenBSD W ^ X implementation ; except that PaX uses the Supervisor bit overloading method to handle NX pages in the code segment as well.

He also wrote a kernel security feature called " Exec Shield ", which prevents stack-based buffer overflow exploits in the x86 architecture by disabling the execute permission for the stack.

It is one of those mainstream Linux distribution, with a concentrated effort to improve system security, as a consequence it boasts a fully integrated SELinux MAC and fine-grained executable memory permission system ( Exec Shield ) and all binaries compiled with GCC's standard stack-smashing protection, as well as focusing on getting security updates into the system in a timely manner.

# REDIRECT Exec Shield

Exec Shield is a project started at Red Hat, Inc in late 2002 with the aim of reducing the risk of worm or other automated remote attacks on Linux systems.

While the Exec Shield project has had many other components, some people refer to this first patch as Exec Shield.

The first Exec Shield patch attempts to flag data memory as non-executable and program memory as non-writeable.

Exec Shield also supplies some address space layout randomization for the mmap () and heap base.

Other features that came out of the Exec Shield project were the so-called Position Independent Executables ( PIE ), the address space randomization patch for Linux kernels, a wide set of glibc internal security checks that make heap and format string exploits near impossible, the GCC Fortify Source feature, and the port and merge of the GCC stack-protector feature.

Exec Shield works on all x86 CPUs utilizing the Code Segment limit.

Thus, in these situations, Exec Shield's schemes fails.

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As of August, 2004, nothing from the Exec Shield projects attempt to enforce memory protections by restricting mprotect () on any architecture ; although memory may not initially be executable, it may become executable later, so the kernel will allow an application to mark memory pages as both writable and executable at the same time.

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The PPC native Exec supports the PowerPC register model which means there's no difference for this Exec if it runs 68k or PowerPC code.

Exec Shield's legacy CPU support approximates ( Ingo Molnar's word for it ) NX emulation by tracking the upper code segment limit.

Similar features are available for other operating systems, including the PaX and Exec Shield patches for Linux, and NetBSD 4 +' s implementation of PaX.

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* The Object Oriented Amiga Exec ; Tim Holloway ; Byte Magazine ; 1991

PaX supplies a method similar to Exec Shield's approximation in the PAGEEXEC as a speedup ; however, when higher memory is marked executable, this method loses its protections.

Because of the way Exec Shield works, it is very lightweight ; however, it won't fully protect arbitrary virtual memory layouts.

Exec Shield was developed by various people at Red Hat ; the first patch was released by Ingo Molnar of Red Hat and first released in May 2003.

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