Comment 14 for bug 452175

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

I should clarify a bit further: this is likely a bad interaction between the randomized mmap allocations and the NX emulation. If you disable ASLR, the problem may also vanish (though note that this disables ASLR for the entire system, which is not really recommended):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#ASLR

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space