[Full-disclosure] Non eXecutable Stack Lovin on OSX86

[Hexose Augury]

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.