Re: IDA stopped working

[Alexandre Julliard]

Shachar Shemesh  writes:
> Trying to run IDA with a kernel without grsecurity indeed works.
>
> Can anyone explain why the security patches block the 00400000 address
> from being used?

It's because the security patches map standard libraries like libc at
this address (the idea is to make pointers to libc routines contain a
0 byte to make it harder to use them in string buffer overflows).