On Monday, September 9, 2019 5:16:23 AM MST Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 9/9/19 1:47 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote:
> ASLR has nothing to do with the wild claims made in that email, that
> having an
x86 system will somehow taint or 'infect' other systems.
> Additionally, you don't need to run a 64 bit system to get
ASLR.
i686 app has only 4 GB of virtual address space (2 GB for user-space and
2 GB for kernel space), so ASLR is ineffective.
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Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)
The system I'm sending this email from only has 4 GiB of memory in total. Does
that mean that this system makes ASLR completely ineffective? Should this arch
also be removed from Fedora, because of that?