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Hello, |
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On Wednesday 22 Sep 2004 17:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:54:55 -0400 John Richard Moser |
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> <nigelenki@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> | I believe it would be a good idea to have such a FEATURES or USE flag |
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> | on by default in all profiles where SSP is supported. In this manner, |
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> | the major targets of security attacks would automatically be |
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> | protected; while still allowing the user to disable the protection if |
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> | the user desires. Users wanting more protection can simply add |
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> | -fstack-protector to CFLAGS, or use Hardened Gentoo. |
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Though ssp (and others like it) can help to combat such attacks, they can |
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obviously only go so far at the mo.. Getting the number of alloca's reduced |
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in large code paths, thrashing it with rats/flawfinder/splint/valgrind (and |
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maybe a crow bar ;-), would help some more, too. :-) |
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> Personally, I don't see the point in an ugly hack which occasionally |
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> sort of protects you from badly written code... The option's there for |
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> anyone who really wants it, but we tend more towards a "turn most things |
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> off unless the user asks for them" approach, hence the relatively low |
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> number of things turned on in the default USE settings. |
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> | Any comments? Would this be more suitable as a USE or a FEATURES |
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> | setting? |
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> FEATURES, not USE. |
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Slightly ot, but would this be the case (using FEATURES instead of USE) for |
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other security/hardened stuff like pic/non-pic? |
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Elfyn |
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- -- |
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Elfyn McBratney |
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beu on irc.freenode.net/savannah.[non]gnu.org |
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