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Bugtraq: Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch

Re: [ANNOUNCE] glibc heap protection patch

From: Han Boetes <han_at_mijncomputer.nl>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:54:11 +0100

William Robertson wrote:
> It seems that this should be patched to use some source of randomness
> such as /dev/random instead of time().

I ported arc4random from OpenBSD to linux some time ago. All I had to
do was to change the sysctl:

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/arc4random.tar.bz2

I think it's a very usefull function.

# Han
Received on Dec 03 2003

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