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Update ASLR stack sysctl description in security.7 and mitigations.7

Description

Update ASLR stack sysctl description in security.7 and mitigations.7

In an earlier implementation the stack (gap) was randomized when the
enable sysctl was set and ASLR was also enabled (in general) for the
binary. In the current implementation the sysctl operates
independently.

Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42357

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Provenance
emasteAuthored on Oct 24 2023, 10:06 PM
Reviewer
kib
Differential Revision
D42357: Update ASLR stack sysctl description in security.7 and mitigations.7
Parents
rG1798b44fda38: user stack randomization: only enable by default for 64bit processes
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