Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:12:40 +0000 From: db <db@traceroute.dk> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, patrick.bihan-faou@netzuno.com Subject: Re: Non-executable stack Message-ID: <200510281512.40622.db@traceroute.dk> In-Reply-To: <4361CEB5.8050305@netzuno.com> References: <200510270608.51571.db@traceroute.dk> <200510272017.02565.db@traceroute.dk> <4361CEB5.8050305@netzuno.com>
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On Friday 28 October 2005 07:09, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > We are using the stack protection patches for GCC in production servers > running FreeBSD 4.11 and everything runs well. We are using a fairly > large number of ports (from samba to php to postgresql, etc.) and none > have shown issues with this feature. > Note that since it is a compiler and library patch, the kernel also > benefits from it. I would say that if a port misbehaves with this, then > it is more likely a problem with the port. I don't know how it is implemented with gcc, but I'm guessing that kernel support is best performancewise (on platforms with hardware support for this). But thanks for your input, I also use php and postgresql, so it is nice to know that they will work :-) br db
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