Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 03:09:52 +1100 From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GCC stack-smashing extension Message-ID: <20020108030952.A91323@raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20020107091948.A4096@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:19:48AM -0600 References: <20020107091948.A4096@sheol.localdomain>
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:19:48AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > - Anyone have any experience with it, good, bad, or otherwise? Installed a copy of gcc 3.0.2 with the patch applied, tried compiling some simple programs with gcc -S -fstack-protector, checked the assembly language output and saw nothing even resembling protection. I assume I messed up the install somehow, but didn't bother trying to figure out what. > - Any reason why I wouldn't want this? It's claimed that people have used versions of FreeBSD compiled with the ssp patch, and the ideas and descriptions sure look nice. It didn't work for me, though. > - Any plans to merge it into the FreeBSD-distributed GCC? This has been discussed on this list recently: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=220254+223170+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-security/20020106.freebsd-security In short, "no", but read that message for the reason. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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