BSDNow Episode 085: PIE in the Sky
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#7W4C)
A bit late out of the gate, Undeadly readers are likely interested in thelatest episodeofBSDNow,featuring news of Solaris working to include OpenBSD's pf as an option on upcoming releases,the Bay Area BSD User Group keeping a stream of videos from their meetings going,some long-form blogging about the OpenBSD ports system,a discussion about keeping your home firewalls up to date,LLVM growing a fuzzing library, and most especially aninterview with Pascal Stumpf (pascal@), with an overview of the whys and hows of address space layout randomization (ASLR) and the work extending position-independent executable (PIE) to statically-linked binaries.