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On Sunday 24 October 2010 10.04.34 Kfir Lavi wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > Magnus Granberg posted on Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:01:40 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> > > Display-If-Install: <sys-devel/gcc-4.4 |
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> > Typo: |
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> > Display-If-Installed: |
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> > ^^ |
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> > Meanwhile, the title reflects hardened profiles, but the updated |
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> > conditions aren't viewed only on hardened. The no-support-for-<gcc-4 |
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> > policy would seem reasonable for most profiles (don't know about the |
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> > exotic archs). Either the title should be updated to reflect that it |
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> > applies in general (not just on hardened), or the condition to display |
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> > only on hardened should be maintained. Either way, making it clearer in |
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> > the body as well would be wise, so people seeing it only on hardened (if |
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> > it applies only to them, for example) will have less chance of missing |
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> > that, if they have regular installs as well. |
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> > But I don't remember whether multiple conditions are ANDed or ORed; they |
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> > should be ANDed here, if it's to apply to ONLY hardened with <gcc-4.4 |
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> > installed. |
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> > -- |
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> > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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> Hi all, |
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> After reading this post I went to wikipedia to read about the SSP. |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection |
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> At the paragraph "GCC Stack-Smashing Protector (ProPolice)", its written" |
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> "It was implemented as a patch to GCC 3.x; a less intrusive |
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> reimplementation is included in the GCC 4.1 release. Currently, SSP is |
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> standard in OpenBSD, FreeBSD (since 8.0), Ubuntu (since 8.04 LTS[3]), |
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> and DragonFly BSD. It is also available in NetBSD (enabled by default |
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> on x86), Debian and Gentoo, disabled by default." |
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> Now this should be changed, if the SSP flag is becoming default. |
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> Regards, |
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> Kfir |
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Updated the news item. |
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Thanks for the notes Duncan. |
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@Kfir It is only the hardened gcc that have the SSP enable as default. |
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We can add that Gentoo (Hardened) have it enable. |
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/Magnus |
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/Magnus |