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Re: stack guard updating source


Is is necessary to implement guard value randomization for every
thread? It will be more securely.

2012/10/10 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2012 02:12:41 Sergey Melnikov wrote:
>> The guard value is identical for any thread, the guard value isn't
>> thread specific.
>
> please re-read what Roland said.  the gs:0x14 access is purely for speed, not
> because we want the value to be different for each thread.
> -mike


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