Re: static pie support for x86 (from OpenBSD)

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Thanks - it would be great to have this functionality!

On 31 May 2017 at 09:53, Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
> On May 31,  9:40am, agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost (Alistair Crooks) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: static pie support for x86 (from OpenBSD)
>
> | Is there any way the _DYNAMIC entry could be abused - to provide hints
> | on range of aslr, or to allow dynamic linking from within the static
> | binary from an abused stack or similar?
>
> The info we get from the _DYNAMIC entry is used just to find information
> about the relocations we need to perform. The ASLR entry point is passed
> in from the kernel.
>
> christos
>