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15. April 2010, 20:46:25

Posts: 14

Still no full ASLR?

I wasn't aware of this, but apparently, Opera 10.5x still doesn't implement full ASLR according to http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/notices/aurora_browser/

Any reason why?

15. April 2010, 22:40:33

joshjnz

Posts: 264

Nowhere in that article does it say what ASLR is or why I should care.

I for one welcome our browser overlord. All hail Opera

16. April 2010, 17:11:32

blackcoder

Posts: 1508

Then read it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization

Opera 18
Latest Opera-Snapshot

Windows 8.1

22. April 2010, 15:01:15

funkydude800

Posts: 14

Originally posted by joshjnz:

Nowhere in that article does it say what ASLR is or why I should care.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, but I'd rather have an educated developers response.

22. April 2010, 16:21:41

ytsmabeer

Frisian translator of Stuff

Posts: 1898

Opera uses ASLR sins Opera 9.64, is it full support wel it should be, but I m not sure.

But as it's now according to mwrinfosecurity only IE has full support

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Fryske KDE weblog http://fryske-kde.blog.com/
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23. April 2010, 11:08:23

ytsmabeer

Frisian translator of Stuff

Posts: 1898

Been searching around and can't find anything about this.

Please file a bug rapport about this, https://bugs.opera.com/wizard
If it's an problem where Opera doesn't know about than they mite wanne contact the people behind the article

Check out http://techbase.kde.org/Localization/fy for the Frisian KDE
Fryske KDE weblog http://fryske-kde.blog.com/
http://ytsmabeer.atspace.com/gedichten/gedichten.html

27. April 2010, 13:16:59

mitchman2

Opera Developer

Posts: 416

10.52 final (not the RC5) has ASLR enabled for the opera.dll. It's somewhat of a manual process for now, but we'll be enabling it for snapshots too in not too long.

Petter Nilsen
Opera Software ASA
Senior Desktop developer

27. April 2010, 19:24:32

Hades32

What I use:

Posts: 1917

I don' really get it. When I look at Opera in Process Explorer, it has had ASLR enabled for a long time...

Using Windows 7 64Bit SP1 and of course Opera
(If nothing else stated the most current weekly) on a nice Dell Studio XPS 16!

29. April 2010, 15:00:32

funkydude800

Posts: 14

Originally posted by Hades32:

I don' really get it. When I look at Opera in Process Explorer, it has had ASLR enabled for a long time...

As far as I'm aware, that means the executable has it enabled, not necesarily all the other files. I did make a ticket for ASLR, but I'm glad 10.52 has improved in this regard, and I'm really glad to hear that future snapshots will be seeing more of this goodness.

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