From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 7 7:19:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (breg.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECCB37B416 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:19:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0EF2D0A25 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:19:51 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g07FJnR04128 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:19:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:19:48 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: security at FreeBSD Subject: GCC stack-smashing extension Message-ID: <20020107091948.A4096@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey, all, I recently stumbled across the web page for the GCC stack-smashing extension (http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/): - Anyone have any experience with it, good, bad, or otherwise? - Any reason why I wouldn't want this? - Any plans to merge it into the FreeBSD-distributed GCC? Thanks, Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message