Security: OS X Leopard Does Memory Randomization?

By Daniel Miessler on October 18th, 2007: Tagged as Apple | Leopard | OS X | Security

According to Apple’s list of 300 new OS X features, Leopard has address space layout randomization.

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A pleasant surprise.

  • Mike

    Mac OS 9 and before had that “feature” in order to handle all the GUI interfaces elements in limited memory. Handles were pointers to pointers, reason being the memory blocks had to be moved around to make space. You locked a handle before access and unlocked it afterwards.

  • Mike

    Mac OS 9 and before had that “feature” in order to handle all the GUI interfaces elements in limited memory. Handles were pointers to pointers, reason being the memory blocks had to be moved around to make space. You locked a handle before access and unlocked it afterwards.


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