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westurner on Sept 18, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Of...

NX bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit

Executable-space protection > Limitations mentions JITs and ROP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable-space_protection

mprotect(), VirtualAlloc[Ex] and VirtualProtect[Ex],

"NX bit: does it protect the stack?" https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47807/nx-bit-do...

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