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[Bug other/77409] CVE-2016-4973 Targets using libssp for SSP are missing -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE functionality
- From: "pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 01:53:43 +0000
- Subject: [Bug other/77409] CVE-2016-4973 Targets using libssp for SSP are missing -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE functionality
- Auto-submitted: auto-generated
- References: <bug-77409-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77409
Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |INVALID
--- Comment #7 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
This is a bug in newlib and MinGW (Cygwin and RTEMS uses newlib) rather than in
GCC for not supporting -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE . ssp should not be the one supplying
this support (it just happens to does not mean it does for all things).