Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds

[Aaron J. Grier]

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 11:54:49AM -0700, Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> But there is currently already a patch out there for GCC, which allows
> you to enable bounds checking on arrays. So If You where a responsible
> Linux distribution creator --- get this patch and compile all the ftpd
> or whotever with it enabled.

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Here at OGI, the immunix project [1] is working on assembling a complete
RedHat 5.1 distribution with everything compiled with our StackGuard
compiler.  [2]

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[1] http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/immunix/
[2] http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/immunix/StackGuard/

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