Article on OpenBSD's malloc improvements.

[n0cmonkey]

Security focus article about OpenBSD's improvements to malloc. It's written for the layman basically, so even I can almost understand it.

It's a decent little article. I've been saying this for a while:

If you use Linux, and haven't heard of PaX, then get out from under your rock and start using it.

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The more popular Linux distributions need to include technologies like this in the default installation. Innovation is useless without exposure - you can build some very powerful protection technologies, but if nobody uses them, they have very little value.