Bug#189494: Add stack protection to GCC

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Package: gcc
Version: 3.2
Severity: wishlist

IBM has a modification to gcc which provides protection against stack
smashing attempts. Reportedly OpenBSD 3.3 will include it.

  What's the stack-smashing protector?

  It is a GCC (Gnu Compiler Collection) extension for protecting
  applications from stack-smashing attacks. Applications written in C
  will be protected by the method that automatically inserts protection
  code into an application at compilation time. The protection is
  realized by buffer overflow detection and the variable reordering
  feature to avoid the corruption of pointers. The basic idea of buffer
  overflow detection comes from StackGuard system.


For full details see http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/



Cheers
John Summerfield

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