[Devil-linux-develop] GCC buffer overflow (security) protection from IBM

[John v. V. <joh...@ya...>]

This is added to Gentoo and OpenBSD now for buffer overflow protection.


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 What's the stack-smashing protector?

It is a GCC (Gnu Compiler Collection) extension for protecting applications
from stack-smashing attacks. Applications written in C will be protected by the
method that automatically inserts protection code into an application at
compilation time. The protection is realized by buffer overflow detection and
the variable reordering feature to avoid the corruption of pointers. The basic
idea of buffer overflow detection comes from StackGuard system. 


http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/
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