I had some time to kill over the past few days and I wanted to explore an idea I had a few months ago. The idea is to protect the ELF GOT (Global Offset Table) (and other segments of memory) from userland without the support of 'relro' functionality now found in the GNU dynamic linker. I accomplished it through techniques such as linker script modification and constructor functions. No kernel modifications are needed and I have tested it on a semi large project (Snort IDS).
You can find the draft version 1.1 of my writeup here. If you find any mistakes let me know and I will fix them.
