From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 7 13:30:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pa169.kurdwanowa.sdi.tpnet.pl (pa169.kurdwanowa.sdi.tpnet.pl [213.77.148.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5F937B405 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from velvet.zaraska.dhs.org (velvet.zaraska.dhs.org [192.168.11.2]) by pa169.kurdwanowa.sdi.tpnet.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3251DA7; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:30:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from velvet.zaraska.dhs.org (velvet.zaraska.dhs.org [127.0.0.1]) by velvet.zaraska.dhs.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g07LTpP01430; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:29:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:29:51 +0100 From: Krzysztof Zaraska To: hawkeyd@visi.com Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC stack-smashing extension Message-Id: <20020107222951.6fcaea7c.kzaraska@student.uci.agh.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200201071902.g07J2ix05040@sheol.localdomain> References: <20020107091948.A4096_sheol.localdomain@ns.sol.net> <20020108030952.A91323_raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au@ns.sol.net> <200201071902.g07J2ix05040@sheol.localdomain> Organization: University Of Mining And Metallurgy X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 7 Jan 2002 13:02:44 -0600 (CST) D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > 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. > > If Kris K. is one of 'em, and his boxen are running fine with sources > built with the patch, that's pretty compelling evidence that it does > no harm, to say the least. See his mail on this list, 01/10/29, Re: BUFFER OVERFLOW EXPLOITS. Please read the whole thread, it is informative. Best regards, Krzysztof To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message