Does RHEL 6 support the PaX security hardening features?

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Issue

  • Does RHEL 6.3 support the PaX security hardening features, in particular the sanitize all freed memory option CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_SANITIZE? If so, how do I enable the features?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

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