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Re: machine independent protection from stack-smashing attack
- To: etoh at jp dot ibm dot com
- Subject: Re: machine independent protection from stack-smashing attack
- From: Rodney Brown <rdb at localhost>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:38:37 +1000 (EST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: RDBrown at mira dot net, RodneyBrown at mynd dot com
Re: machine independent protection from stack-smashing attack
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Hiroaki Etoh wrote:
> > I would like some feedback whether it is worth pursuing getting it
> > assigned to the FSF for inclusion in GCC.
>
> That sounds very useful, also for debugging ``regular'' programs. I
> don't see why we should *not* want to add this as an option to GCC,
> disabled by default and enabled by a command-line flag.
>
> Gerald
> --
> Gerald "Jerry" Pfeifer
I've been surprised at the lack of response to this. Architecture
independant stack-smashing protection that doesn't compromise the
ABI would be a GREAT enhancement to have.
As I understand it StackGuard <http://immunix.org/stackguard.html>
is x86 linux specific and breaks the ABI.
--
Rodney Brown