Re: propolice support for linux

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:45:58PM +0059, Han Boetes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The propolice gcc-extension prevents buffer-overflows in binaries:
> 
>   http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/
> 
> The effect is that all buffer-overflow exploits are turned into a
> -- logged -- Denial of service.

This is little bit too strong.
The effect is that it detects some stack buffer-overflow exploits.

	Jakub
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