Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Low Latency Patch | From | Yoann Vandoorselaere <> | Date | 04 Jul 2000 02:17:21 +0200 |
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Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com> writes:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > > If you check the archives, I was one of the cheif participants arguing for > > the Solar Designer patch when it first came out (three years ago?). Since > > then it's been clearly demonstrated that the patch does little good > > against an attacker thats prepaired for it (stackguard and libsafe do much > > better though). > > > > Go get libsafe, it's got example 'sploits that work against the Solar > > patch and it's alot cleaner... > > I am going to look at libsafe; I had previously heard that it was for > x86 platforms only and I'm really looking for a portable solution so I can > use on both x86, sgi, sparc-32, and sparc-64 platforms I have here. But I > see source is available so I'll take a look.
Right now libsafe isn't portable because we're using some gcc builtin function which appear to not work, for exemple on alpha.
-- -- Yoann http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/ It is well known that M$ product don't make a free() after a malloc(), the unix community wish them good luck for their future development.
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