bugtraq - Re: Buffer overflow prevention

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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:33:43 -0700
From: Crispin Cowan <crispin@...unix.com>
To: dolan@...admin.unt.edu
Subject: Re: Buffer overflow prevention

Patrick Dolan wrote:

>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.

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.

Crispin

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