Re: Additional linking hardening

Christopher Davis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:16:39PM +0100, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> >=20
> > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 16:19:35 +0100, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> >=20
> >> +# To prevent some kinds of exploitation at run time, fix up the progr=
> am's
> >> +# got table to be read only (also reorders structures) after the firs=
> t program
> >> +# load. eg: ld -z relro -z now
> >> +LDFLAGS +=3D -z relro -z now
> >> +
> >=20
> > I think you want
> > LDFLAGS +=3D -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now
> 
> That looks about right.
> 
> >=20
> > LDFLAGS are passed to the compiler, not directly to ld.
> 
> Ah sure, of course.
> 
> >=20
> > How portable to non-gnu ld are these flags?
> 
> I am unsure. A good question. What other build environments should I
> test with?
> 

Mac OS X is the most notable platform I can think of that
doesn't use GNU ld (although it does use gcc).

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Christopher Davis
Mangrin Remailer Admin
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