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2022-03-11 |
FreeBSD publishes status report |
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The FreeBSD team have published their quarterly status report which details progress being made in all aspects of the project. The FreeBSD developers have been working on improving boot times, introducing new and improved drivers, and implementing randomized memory locations. "Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is an exploit mitigation technique implemented in the majority of modern operating systems. It involves randomly positioning the base address of an executable and the position of libraries, heap, and stack, in a process’s address space. Although over the years ASLR proved to not guarantee full OS security on its own, this mechanism can make exploitation more difficult. The Semihalf team made an effort to switch on the address map randomization for PIE (Position Independent Executables) & non-PIE 64-bit binaries. Once the patch was merged to HEAD, the ASLR feature became enabled for all 64-bit architectures." The report offers many more details. |
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