bugtraq - Re: Buffer overflow prevention

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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:32:14 +0200
From: Peter Busser <peter@...steddebian.org>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Buffer overflow prevention


Hi!

> >There is a flag for the Gnu C/C++ compilers, -fstack-protector, that will 
> >implement ProPolice stack protection.  It should prevent stack smashing 
> >techniques.
> >
> That is not actually in the standard GCC; it is in a forked GCC that 
> OpenBSD chooses to ship.

Adamantix and Gentoo Hardened also ship this patched GCC compiler.

> We (Immunix) are in the process of trying to make StackGuard (the 
> original) meet all of the criteria required for acceptance into GCC. At 
> the GCC Summit <http://www.gccsummit.org/2003/> in May, we presented a 
> StackGuard talk 
> <http://www.gccsummit.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=31> on that topic.

I would rather see Hiraoke Etoh's Stack Smashing Protector (aka ProPolice) as
standard stack-smashing protection mechanism in GCC than StackGuard.

Groetjes,
Peter Busser
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