Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón" <tazok.id0@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Tool for eliminating non used code or symbols?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:17:30
Message-Id: 51506ABF.1050106@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Tool for eliminating non used code or symbols? by PaX Team
1 On 25/03/13 13:52, PaX Team wrote:
2 > On 25 Mar 2013 at 9:01, Kfir Lavi wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi,
5 >> I'm looking for a way to reduce glibc code size.
6 >> It can be a way to make system smaller and minimize the impact
7 >> of attack vectors in glibc, as in return-to-libc attack.
8 >
9 > study this and draw your conclusions whether the whole exercise is
10 > worth it or not:
11 >
12 > https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-security-11/q-exploit-hardening-made-easy
13 >
14 >
15
16 This paper seems interesting against Return oriented programming:
17
18 http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~s/teaching/cs460/2012-fall/ROPdefender.pdf