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:
>  
>
> > > except this is no longer true really ;)
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Still is very new....not every one can immediately start using gcc 4.
> >    
>
> it;s also available for gcc 3.4 as patch (and included in FC3 and RHEL4
> for example)
>
> 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.
>
>  
How about using ProPolice etc ?

rvk

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