Re: Additional linking hardening

Julien Cristau <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jacob,

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 16:19:35 +0100, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:

> +# To prevent some kinds of exploitation at run time, fix up the program's
> +# got table to be read only (also reorders structures) after the first program
> +# load. eg: ld -z relro -z now
> +LDFLAGS += -z relro -z now
> +

I think you want
LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now

LDFLAGS are passed to the compiler, not directly to ld.

How portable to non-gnu ld are these flags?

Cheers,
Julien

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