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2015 Sep 29
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ExecShield in C6 or C7 kernels?
...ernels for Centos-6 and/or Centos-7
have ExecShield compiled in, and if so, if it is turned on by default.
On my local C7 box I've been looking at/for indicators without a lot of
success:
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf. does not mention ExecShield at all.
/proc/sys/kernel has no entries for exec_shield
no mention of execshield in any of the files in /etc/grub.d
So, as far as I can see, there are no settings that I would expect to
force ExecShield to an ON setting.
I DO see, in /proc/sys/kernel, a file named randomize_va_space, and it
contains a value of "2".
I've been googling (w...