> That's a bug which only occurs on five year old distributions and which was fixed years before any exploit was ever found I don't think we're reading the sam

> That's a bug which only occurs on five year old distributions and which was fixed years before any exploit was ever found I don't think we're reading the same post unless you got confused by the part where he discusses the exploit not the bug. > Honestly if that's being brought up as a bad example Linux is looking pretty good compared to other operating systems. Compared to what? FreeBSD? Certainly not any modern desktop OS. MSFT is investing heavily in exploit mitigations while Linux distros are probably still struggling with ASLR. https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Weston-Windows-10-Mitigation-Improvements.pdf https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Weston-W...