Re: atexit() and stdio() protection

2012-07-18 Thread Otto Moerbeek
page. But if you dug into > the source code, and the commit logs, you'd see this cleverness in > action. > > It slows malloc down a little bit, but it makes it a lot harder to > attack the back-end. > > > I'm trying to dig up information on the atexit() and stdio(

Re: atexit() and stdio() protection

2012-07-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
isn't worth mentioning in a manual page. But if you dug into the source code, and the commit logs, you'd see this cleverness in action. It slows malloc down a little bit, but it makes it a lot harder to attack the back-end. > I'm trying to dig up information on the atexit() a

atexit() and stdio() protection

2012-07-18 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi folks, I'm trying to dig up information on the atexit() and stdio() protection given in the FAQ. I can find lots of statements that this protection exists, but I can't find any presentations or papers saying what they are and what they do. The man pages for these functions don'