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On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 13:07, Eric P. wrote: |
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> Hello, All: |
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> I'm emerge'ing a _new_ system and realized later that I *may* have made a |
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> mistake: |
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> I added '-fstack-protector' to CFLAGS and began emerge'ing the |
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> system without emerge'ing hardened-gcc first. |
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> According the the propolice.xml page, SSP has been included in gcc since |
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> 3.2.3-r1 so - it is my understanding that - the '-fstack-protector' should |
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> enhance the security of the system against buffer-overflows. But by not using |
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> hardened-gcc, I'm concerned that I may have missed-out on a critical security |
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> enhancement. |
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You have. |
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But without a kernel to support it would do little good. |
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Should I re-emerge the entire system or just emerge hardened-gcc before |
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> emerge'ing grsec-sources? |
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The kernel has been known not to play along with hgcc at times so |
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probably your best bet is building your kernel beforehand and then |
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merging hardened-gcc then finishing it off with an emerge -e world |
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good luck. |
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> Eric P. |
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> Sunnyvale, CA |
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