"Strong" stack protection for GCC

Posted Jun 15, 2014 9:03 UTC (Sun) by mina86 (guest, #68442)
In reply to: "Strong" stack protection for GCC by fw
Parent article: "Strong" stack protection for GCC

Another thing that -fstack-protector does is rearrange local variables so that arrays start at higher addresses than non-array variables. I haven't found specifics of CVE-2001-0797, but presumably it would solve the problem.