Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:59:46 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: realpath(3) et al Message-ID: <20030812195946.GB51604@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <006601c360c9$3c9cfc40$9f8d2ed5@internal> References: <20030812042912.V3417@walter> <006601c360c9$3c9cfc40$9f8d2ed5@internal>
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > In any case, IBM has a stack smashing protection patch for GCC 3.3 on > FreeBSD 4.8 available at > http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/buildfreebsd.html (the > description page is at http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/). It > currently works in the latest cvsupped source from 5.1 as well (I've built > and tested it). http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ has the latest. Yes, I'd like to see this in the base system as well. Our toolchain in 5.x is calming down a bit, maybe the timing is getting ripe. I thought Kris looked into this before, but I don't recall what might have ultimately stopped him from making the commits. cc:ing him in case he has insight to share. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se
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