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Re: PaX on Debian



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Steve Kemp wrote:
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|>Firefox sets off SSP itself on load.
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|   When you say 'sets of' do you mean disable?  I find that unlikely,
|  as it's not the kind of thing that can be disabled when all the
|  canary checking code is incorporated into the binary...
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45671

Ok so not on load, more like on competant use.

|>"Stack Smash Protection" is the new name of ProPolice?  o_o  Thought
|>that was the name of the concept.
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|   SSP is the name for one implementation of stack smashing protection
|  which was previously known as ProPolice.
|   It's available from IBM at the following URL:
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| 	http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/
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| Steve
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