[kernel-hardening] [PATCH v2 0/5] stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary

Yann Droneaud ydroneaud at opteya.com
Wed Sep 20 04:18:04 PDT 2017


Hi,

Le mardi 19 septembre 2017 à 19:16 +0200, Solar Designer a écrit :
>
> We could put/require a NUL in the middle of the canary,
> but with the full canary being only 64-bit at most that would also
> make some attacks easier.
> 

Are you suggesting to randomly select which byte to set to 0 in each
canary ?

Regards.

-- 
Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA




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