[macosx-unix] ProPolice Stack Protection for Darwin

Isaac Levy ike at lesmuug.org
Sun Jan 16 11:49:23 EST 2005


Hi All, mad sunday fun,

This morning I found some pretty neat instructions to provide buffer 
overflow stack protection for Darwin:

http://optimist.sdf-eu.org/propolice-darwin.html

ProPolice is an extension for the GCC created in Japan.  It is built 
into the source of OpenBSD, and there are fairly straightforeword ways 
to build it into the GCC on other unixes.  For more fun facts on 
buffer-overflow attacks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow

Rocket-
.ike



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