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Bug#650536: [new check] test for missing hardening build flags



On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:50:19AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Currently ldd is used to discover which libc the binaries is linked
> to, in order to read symbol from the libc library. But this won't
> work, even when using readelf, for foreign architecture binaries,
> for the simple reason that such libc might not exist on the user's
> system.

Right. How do you think this should be handled? I could fall back to the
earlier method of just looking for things named _chk()?

-Kees

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Kees Cook                                            @debian.org



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