has fortify helped?

Jack Howarth howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu
Mon Feb 5 14:51:48 UTC 2007


   I assume that Fedora Core 6 is still built with the fortify source
option in gcc 4.1. Has using that actually helped decrease the number
of exploits that can be used on Fedora? Also, I noticed that Fedora
doesn't seem to use libssp. Is that just not stable or not very
effective to use? Just curious.
               Jack




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