Traceroute exploit + story (fwd)

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu Oct 5 16:16:00 GMT 2000


Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I can't see any possible way, no.  But I like the fact that in the
> other declaration of __libc_enable_secure it defaults to 1 in case the
> test somehow gets skipped; it's more failsafe.  Any reason not to
> change this similarly?

Yes.  .bss data is cheaper then .data.

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