Re: Buffer Over-runs, was Open source firewalls

[RVK <rvk@prodmail.net>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:56 +0530, RVK wrote:
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>>>except this is no longer true really ;)
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>>>randomisation for example makes this a lot harder to do.
>>>gcc level tricks to prevent buffer overflows are widely in use nowadays
>>>too (FORTIFY_SOURCE and -fstack-protector). The combination of this all
>>>makes it a LOT harder to actually exploit a buffer overflow on, say, a
>>>distribution like Fedora Core 4.
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>>Still is very new....not every one can immediately start using gcc 4.
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>it;s also available for gcc 3.4 as patch (and included in FC3 and RHEL4
>for example)
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>so it's new? so what? doesn't make it less true that it nowadays is a
>lot harder to exploit such bugs on recent distros.
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How about using ProPolice etc ?

rvk

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