When building the stack guard, it has been traditionally important to have the value start (in memory) with a zero byte to protect the guard value (and the rest of the stack past it) from being read via strcpy, etc.
This patch reduces the number of random bytes by one, leaving the leading zero byte. https://www.kildarehousebuilders.ie -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413278 Title: stack protector guard value does not lead with a NULL byte To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/413278/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
