Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #727064
  2. Comment #161

Comment 161 for bug 727064

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In , yann (yann-redhat-bugs-1) wrote :

(In reply to comment #102)
> (In reply to comment #101)
>
> > Of course, it would be even better if the distro also made it easy for
> > developers to see the bad memcpy's, so that they can fix their apps.
>
> This is probably already done: using -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 enable use of
> __builtin___memcpy_chk()

Nope.

When looking at glibc (and gcc), _FORTIFY_SOURCE only enable checks for
overflow, not overlap.