RE: White papers

From: Steve Adams <steve.adams_at_ixora.com.au>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:52:44 +1000
Message-Id: <10556.111916@fatcity.com>

Hi Bill,

I would be very surprised if Oracle were to use stack execution. Try it, and they have been naughty anywhere you'll start to get new ORA-7445 errors.

Regards,
Steve Adams

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Bill Wagman [SMTP:wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu]
Sent:	Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:47 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:	Re: White papers

Hello,

A question regarding Oracle and Solaris O/S settings.

Stack execution is required by some applications in order to work properly. However, if the stack is executable, the system is vulnerable to buffer overflow exploits. In Solaris, stack execution can be turned off by adding the following line to /etc/system:

set noexec_user_stack=1

I would like to set this on several of our Sun servers. Does Oracle require stack execution in order to run (I don't think so)? Does Oracle require and kind of modifications in order to run on a system with stack execution turned off?

Thanks.

Bill Wagman
Univ. of California at Davis
Information Resources
wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu
(530) 754-6208

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