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Hi, first sorry for cross-posting but I thought this patch might interest -CURRENT users as well as people concerned by security. I wrote a patch that integrates ProPolice/SSP into FreeBSD, one step further than it has been realized so far. It is available here : http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/FreeBSD/SSP/ Everything is explained on the web page, but I will repeat some informations here.

Got a few servers still on 4.5. /etc/make.conf contains NOPROFILE= true # Avoid compiling profiled libraries make buildworld runs fine, but buildkernel gives cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/../include

Hi there, I'm still running 6.2 on various servers without any tweaks (GENERIC kernel, binary updates via freebsd-update etc.) but lots of ports (apache, postgresql, diablo-jdk etc.) and would like to use stack smashing protection in order to harden my boxes and avoid many potential exploits. I've known about ProPolice/SSP for a while now (from the Gentoo world) and am aware that