Bug#269522: gcc-3.3: SSP Patch fails to apply without a small modification.

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Kemp
Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 1:3.3.4-9 Severity: minor Tags: patch The SSP patch included with the GCC-3.3 package shipped by Debian doesn't function correctly without a small update. The patch below fixes this and allows the option to be enabled. (I've been rebuilding a lot of Debian packa

Bug#233208: Patch effectiveness

2004-02-23 Thread Steve Kemp
As well as showing how well the compiler works for the i386 platform I have a list of all the my recent DSA's and a comment on whether the SSP compiler would have prevented exploitation. The table can be found here: http://shellcode.org/Advisories/ The short version is that 16 o

Re: Building a distribution from source?

2003-12-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:20:19AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > I believe that our GCC packages already have propolice patched in but not > > enabled. Therefore it should be a much easier change to make for it to be > > included. > > This is true, debian/patches has a line