Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1416] crash (stack smashing) on single
      
      
Jeff Morriss wrote:
bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1416
stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx changed:
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Your SuSE system must have -fstack-protector / -fstack-protector-all enabled by
default in gcc.  More information about this implementation can be found at
http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/node4.html for those who are
curious.
Should we turn this on in development builds (especially for the fuzz bot)?
The fuzz testing used to be done on a machine whose OS included a 
veersion of GCC that didn't support a "-fstack-protector" option.  That 
machine was replaced by a machine running a later version of that OS, 
but the man page for GCC in that OS lists "-fstack-check", 
"-fstack-limit-register", and "-fstack-limit-symbol", but not 
"-fstack-protector" or "-fstack-protector-all".
That machine also appears to be the fastest of all the buildbot 
machines, so it'd probably be the fastest one for fuzz testing. 
However, if another machine has a GCC that supports "-fstack-protector", 
that might be the machine to use (and perhaps to upgrade to a faster 
system).