Re: Could we harden GCC's stack smashing? (Re: Adam Zabrocki's Adventure with stack smashing protection)

2014-03-29 Thread Steven Stewart-Gallus
Thank you, I must then apologize to the GCC mailing list for bringing up something off topic. About GCC's _stack_chk_fail. Yeah, it's much simpler. Personally, I wouldn't trust syslog but I'm not sure of a good alternative. I'll go bother the GLibc people. Thank you, S

Could we harden GCC's stack smashing? (Re: Adam Zabrocki's Adventure with stack smashing protection)

2014-03-29 Thread Steven Stewart-Gallus
GSEGV signal. I coded up a small illustration of how the exec strategy would work. Thank you, Steven Stewart-Gallus #include #include #include #include /* * In a real implementation this would be a real crash reporting * program. It would use /proc to examine debugging information such *