From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 7 8: 9:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au (168.a.007.mel.iprimus.net.au [210.50.80.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9295637B41A for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tim@localhost) by raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g07G9sT92393 for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 03:09:54 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from tim) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 03:09:52 +1100 From: "Tim J. Robbins" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GCC stack-smashing extension Message-ID: <20020108030952.A91323@raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20020107091948.A4096@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020107091948.A4096@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:19:48AM -0600 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 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