From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 27 22:52:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6153B16A41B for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8AA13C45B for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:52:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26FB209C; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:52:02 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.1/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57C4207E; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:52:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9842084488; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:52:02 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Gunther Mayer References: <477277FF.30504@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:52:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: <477277FF.30504@googlemail.com> (Gunther Mayer's message of "Wed\, 26 Dec 2007 17\:49\:19 +0200") Message-ID: <86myrvhht9.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ProPolice/SSP in 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:52:16 -0000 Gunther Mayer writes: > I've known about ProPolice/SSP for a while now (from the Gentoo world) > and am aware that FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't yet support it though I know of > Jeremy Le Hen's patches (http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/FreeBSD/SSP/). Wrong. FreeBSD 7 has had SSP support since May; the patch you mention just turns it on by default. You can probably achieve the same effect by adding -fstack-protector to CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS in make.conf. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no