Re: grsecurity/stack smashing attack

Marcel Meckel writes:

> Hi,
> 
> cone doesn't work with grsecurity? While trying to read a message via
> IMAPS:
> 
> cone: stack smashing attack in function bool
> mail::imapFOLDER_COUNT::fillbodystructure(mail::imap&,
> mail::imapparsefmt&, mail::mimestruct&, std::basic_string<char,
> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >)()
> Terminated
> 
> grsec: From xx.xx.xx.xx: signal 6 sent to
> /usr/libexec/cone[cone:25947] uid/euid:1000/1000 gid/egid:1000/1000,
> parent /bin/bash[bash:15441] uid/euid:1000/1000 gid/egid:1000/1000
> 
> Could this be fixed easily in cone without dropping grsec from the
> running kernel?

Maybe, if there's some indication of what the problem is.  The above does 
not give any useful information about the problem.

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