Articles with tag: Ssp
POSTED BY: Patroklos Argyroudis / 26.04.2010

FreeBSD kernel exploitation mitigations

In my recent Black Hat Europe 2010 talk I gave an overview of the kernel exploitation prevention mechanisms that exist on FreeBSD. A few people at the conference have subsequently asked me to elaborate on the subject. In this post I will collect all the information from my talk and the various discussions I had in the Black Hat conference hallways.


POSTED BY: Dimitrios Glynos / 03.04.2010

Update on canary randomisation for hardened Linux applications

This article is a followup to our last year’s advisory on canary randomisation for applications of the Debian distribution.


POSTED BY: Dimitrios Glynos / 21.01.2009

Static SSP canary in Debian libc6

CENSUS ID:CENSUS-2009-0001
Affected Products:All SSP-armoured applications, statically or dynamically linked against the libc6 library (versions ≤ 2.7) provided by the Debian GNU/Linux project.
Class:Degraded performance of security mechanism due to misconfiguration.
Discovered by:Dimitris Glynos

We have found that Debian packages of the GNU libc library (versions prior to and including 2.7) provide a static (i.e. guessable) canary value to all applications armoured with the gcc SSP mechanism.