You can prevent that by using the NX or the XD bit. Its a CPU feature and I believe the support was added over 15 years ago in most popular OSs. Here's the comm

You can prevent that by using the NX or the XD bit. Its a CPU feature and I believe the support was added over 15 years ago in most popular OSs. Here's the commit for Linux https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=36bc33bac78f6bc08282c622138f4e432b62e7be https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/hist... >It's also pointless. If a program can cause damage by loading harmful code it can also cause damage directly. It is not pointless, but it is also not perfect. That's why we have defense in depth. Where instead of having one perfect moat to protect the castle, you also have alligators and witches that turn people into frogs. :P