Package description for 'libsafe'

detection and protection against stack smashing attacks

 The libsafe library protects a process against the exploitation of
 buffer overflow vulnerabilities in process stacks.  Libsafe works with
 any existing pre-compiled executable and can be used transparently,
 even on a system-wide basis.  The method intercepts all calls to
 library functions that are known to be vulnerable.  A substitute
 version of the corresponding function implements the original
 functionality, but in a manner that ensures that any buffer overflows
 are contained within the current stack frame.  Libsafe has been shown
 to detect several known attacks and can potentially prevent yet
 unknown attacks.  Experiments indicate that the performance overhead
 of libsafe is negligible.

Various other information for package 'libsafe'   (Repository 'base')

URL: https://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/libsafe.html

Author: Arash Baratloo, Timothy Tsai, and Navjot Singh
Maintainer: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.0-16

Download: https://www.research.avayalabs.com/project/libsafe/src/ libsafe-2.0-16.tgz

Buildtime: 1535 (5) seconds (on reference hardware)
Buildtime: 2356 (9) seconds (on reference hardware)
Package Size: 0.04 MB, 8 files

Dependencies: 00-dirtree bash2 binutils bzip2 coreutils cvm findutils gawk gcc42
Dependencies: gcc42:dev glibc26 glibc26:dev grep linux26-headers:dev ltrace make
Dependencies: mktemp patch sed sysfiles tar xmame

ROCK Sources:  libsafe.cache,  libsafe.conf,  libsafe.desc,  no_exploits.patch