Re: static pie support for x86 (from OpenBSD)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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