From owner-freebsd-audit Sun Aug 19 8:51:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [194.97.50.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB78C37B40F for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 08:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from [194.97.50.136] (helo=mx3.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 15YUrR-0001TP-00; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:51:37 +0200 Received: from a3711.pppool.de ([213.6.55.17] helo=Magelan.Leidinger.net) by mx3.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 15YUrQ-0001QY-00; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:51:37 +0200 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7JFpSV01199; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:51:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200108191551.f7JFpSV01199@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:51:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: [art@cvs.openbsd.org: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src] To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010818190339.A76832@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Aug, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Anyone up for porting this? I'm not volunteering, but want to raise the "the stack is misaligned" issue... at least I haven't seen a commit ehich says the opposite (and I paid attention to this issue since (should be in the archive of -current)). If someone picks up the OpenBSD commit it should be easy to align the stack at the same time. > Log message: > Add a possibility to add a random offset to the stack on exec. This makes > it slightly harder to write generic buffer overflows. This doesn't really > give any real security, but it raises the bar for script-kiddies and it's > really cheap. Bye, Alexander. -- Reboot America. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message