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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:44:28 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Hiroaki Etoh <etoh@trl.ibm.co.jp>, kris@freebsd.org
Cc:        security@freebsd.org, ash@lab.poc.net, kjm@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp, iwamura@muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: Base system with gcc stack-smashing protector 
Message-ID:  <200102162144.f1GLikr30835@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:26:25 %2B0900." <20010216182625I.etoh@trl.ibm.com> 

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Any idea when this might be merged into the base tree?


Regards,                         Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC

In message <20010216182625I.etoh@trl.ibm.com>, Hiroaki Etoh writes:
> On 17 Nov, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > This was trivial to get working on FreeBSD, but here is a patch
> > against the system gcc in 4.x which will compile a ProPolice-enabled
> > version, so FreeBSD users can start easily making use of this. The
> > patch is the same for 5.x users except you will need to replace
> > "contrib/gcc" with "contrib/gcc.295" in the diff.
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~kris/protector.patch
> 
> Iwamura-san and Etoh have finished to build the stack protected version
> of FreeBSD base system!  Iwamura-san fixed several linkage errors
> generated from the above patch. 
> 
> We confirmed the protected system blocked the bind TSIG exploit which is
> announced from CERT, 31 Jan, 2001.
> 
> Here is a patch against the system 4.2-RELEASE.
> http://www.trl.ibm.co.jp/projects/security/ssp/protector.patch
> 
> See http://www.trl.ibm.co.jp/projects/security/ssp/buildfreebsd.html for
> details.
> 
> We are still working on building the protected version of kernel.
> 
> Hiroaki Etoh,
> Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan
> 
> Makoto Iwamura,
> Muraoka Lab., Waseda University
> 
> 
> 
> 
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