Stack smashing protection included? [LWN.net]

Stack smashing protection included?

Posted Dec 6, 2006 17:37 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Stack smashing protection included? by dwheeler
Parent article: Ubuntu "Feisty" Herd 1 released

Why single out Ubuntu? No other mainstream Linux distribution, with the
possible exception of Fedora, uses that stuff either.

And many of us consider Fedora to be no more than a technology testbed
and a beta version of RHEL, rather than a distribution with high quality
aspirations of its own.

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Stack smashing protection included?

Posted Dec 6, 2006 17:58 UTC (Wed) by dwa (subscriber, #24604) [Link]

Perhaps because the article the original poster was commenting on is *about Ubuntu*?

And many people believed that Linux would never amount to anything, but that wasn't true either.

Stack smashing protection included?

Posted Dec 6, 2006 18:10 UTC (Wed) by scottt (subscriber, #5028) [Link]

> And many of us consider Fedora to be no more than a technology testbed
> and a beta version of RHEL, rather than a distribution with high quality
> aspirations of its own.

Many would disagree.

Note that Redhat employs the gcc and binutils developers that implemented the -DFORTIFY_SOURCE and PIE features upstream.
Integrating new security features is easier when you invest heavily in its original development.