Timeline for Does compiling from sources "kinda" protects from buffer overflow attacks?
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| Nov 19, 2017 at 4:10 | comment | added | guest | It does slightly help with ROP, though. Of course infoleak exploits are still ubiquitous. | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 21:26 | vote | accept | Brian Clozel | ||
| Jul 19, 2011 at 9:52 | comment | added | user2122 | @Billy ONeal: Thanks for commenting. :-) I didn't know that. | |
| Jul 19, 2011 at 3:52 | comment | added | Billy ONeal |
Do keep in mind that Microsoft's compiler implements similar stack smashing stuff (using Canaries) using the /GS switch.
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| Jul 19, 2011 at 0:17 | history | edited | user2122 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2011 at 23:49 | history | answered | user2122 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |