full-disclosure - Non eXecutable Stack Lovin on OSX86

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Message-ID: <ef7b77820605230858g45d98822xfed6cfa2ca0e23bf@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue May 23 18:48:57 2006
From: hexose.augury at gmail.com (Hexose Augury)
Subject: Non eXecutable Stack Lovin on OSX86

hi,   cool article--- a nice extension of existing return-to-libc
literatrue.  something make me wonder if i fully understand u thuogh:

> The goal of this text is to show that unlike some folks would like you to believe the move to x86
> architecture really does open up new avenues of exploitation for OSX systems.

what is the new avenue? return-to-libc was possible on powerpc too?
and not specific to osx?
seems to me that x86 osx has fewer "avenues of exploitation" than powerpc osx.