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Archive for January 21, 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.

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