On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:50:31PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> Here's the control file, so you can see what it's for:
>
> Source: libsafe
> Section: libs
> Priority: optional
> Maintainer: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Standards-Version: 3.1.1
>
> Package: libsafe
> Architecture: any
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> Description: Protection against buffer overflow vulnerabilities
> Libsafe is a library that works with any pre-compiled executable
> and can be used transparently. Libsafe intercepts calls to
> functions known as vulnerable, libsafe uses a substitute version
> of the function that implements the same functionality, but makes
> sure any buffer overflows are contained within the current stack
> frame.
So if it only contains a single library, how do you actually use it?
Do you have to type something ghastly like:
$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libsafe.0 sh -c 'unsafe-command arg1 arg2 arg3'
Or do you have a wrapper program?
If the latter, have a look at the fakeroot package to see how it's
done, and in either case, you probably want to be storing your library
in /usr/lib/libsafe/libsafe.0.0.
HTH,
Julian
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