Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] [INFO] SSP protecting glibc functions
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:12:39
Message-Id: 20060925171016.5e2a8591@c1358217.kevquinn.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] [INFO] SSP protecting glibc functions by Alexander Gabert
1 On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:10:10 +0200
2 Alexander Gabert <a.gabert@××××××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > i am asking myself the question whether compiling some object code of
5 > glibc makes sense with SSP being instrumented on some high level user
6 > visible glibc functions.
7
8 The point of building glibc with SSP enabled has to be to protect
9 against bugs in glibc itself. Clearly one would hope that glibc
10 doesn't contain any such bugs, and we have no evidence to suggest that
11 it does, however the possibility remains.
12
13 --
14 Kevin F. Quinn

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