Bug 577438

Summary:	app-text/ghostscript-gpl add more hardening flags
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2016-03-14 22:28:24 UTC

I discovered that ghostscript-gpl has ~180 unresolved bugs derived from fuzzing. So it is really dangerous for the security side.

I'd suggest to add some flags to make it hardened.

What do you think?

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2017-02-17 20:29:45 UTC

(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #0)
> I discovered that ghostscript-gpl has ~180 unresolved bugs derived from
> fuzzing. So it is really dangerous for the security side.
> 
> I'd suggest to add some flags to make it hardened.
> 
> What do you think?

That you should probably provide more information on what you precisely want.

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-02-18 11:31:49 UTC

I guess CFLAGS="-fPIE -fstack-protector-all -fstack-check=specific" and LDFLAGS="-pie" are enough.
What I said are the default in openssh. You can check the flags with hardening-check tool(in portage) or checksec