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Nutanix AOS 5.20.x OS Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00192
Nutanix AOS must implement nonexecutable data to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.
Nutanix AOS must implement nonexecutable data to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.
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Nutanix AOS must implement nonexecutable data to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>Some adversaries launch attacks with the intent of executing code in nonexecutable regions of memory or in memory locations that are prohibited. Security safeguards employed to protect memory include, for example, data execution prevention and address space layout randomization. Data execution prevention safeguards can either be hardware-enforced or software-enforced with hardware providing the greater strength of mechanism. Examples of attacks are buffer overflow attacks.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>