Re: Secure Linux From Scratch

Ian Molton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Organization The Dragon Roost
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 05:34:53 -0500
[email protected] wrote:

> I also noticed openbsd base binaries segfault 
> much less when tested with bfbtester (patch and wc segfault twice on
> openbsd, and about 100 times on Linux).

whats bfbtester? one of those random input garbage stress tests?

if so, do bear in mind that segfaulting may be better than not - a
failure to segfault could be down to having NOT detected a buffer
overflow...

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