Stack smashing protection included?

Stack smashing protection included?

Posted Dec 6, 2006 18:10 UTC (Wed) by scottt (subscriber, #5028)
In reply to: Stack smashing protection included? by rfunk
Parent article: Ubuntu "Feisty" Herd 1 released

> 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.

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