From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 15 21:10:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-c.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.183.3.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9846837B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 61593 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Nov 2000 05:10:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Nov 2000 05:10:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 23:10:22 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: KOJIMA Hajime Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: Propolice for gcc-2.95.2 In-Reply-To: <46896.974343158@ideon.st.ryukoku.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, KOJIMA Hajime wrote: > FYI: "Propolice", GCC extension for protecting applications from > stack-smashing attacks, for gcc-2.95.2 is now available. > > > > ---- > KOJIMA Hajime - Ryukoku University, Seta, Ootsu, Shiga, 520-2194 Japan > [Office] kjm@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp, http://www.st.ryukoku.ac.jp/~kjm/ One thing I'm unclear on is how propolice affects compatibility between modules. Can I use a libc compiled without propolice and an app compiled with it, or vice versa? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message