>>Enforced W^X userland as of 6.0 >Linux Well grsecurity's mmap protections are a strict superset of OpenBSD's W^X which we've had for what 10 years now? >Li

>>Enforced W^X userland as of 6.0 >Linux Well grsecurity's mmap protections are a strict superset of OpenBSD's W^X which we've had for what 10 years now? >Literally every other OS out there has stack protector, and it was Windows pushing it to wide adoption I don't know when OpenBSD or Linux distro's were starting to add SSP support but stack protection/BSC (buffer security checks) have been enabled by default in every Visual Studio version since (at least) 2005. The mitigation has been improved over the years as well. DEP and ASLR became default in 2008 (not really relevant here though).