W^X
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w-x-184-4902777
title:
W^X
text:
W^X is a security feature in operating systems and virtual machines. It is a memory protection policy whereby every page in a process's or kernel's address space may be either writable or executable, but not both. Without such protection, a program can write CPU instructions in an area of memory intended for data and then run those instructions. This can be dangerous if the writer of the memory is malicious. W^X is the Unix-like terminology for a strict use of the general concept of executable s
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Operating system memory security feature
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX
date created:
2004-11-11T08:59:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T05:35:01Z
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