Re: John the Ripper - Patch issue with Ubuntu?

[StaticRez <staticrez () gmail com>]

> Has anyone else experienced this? if so, please share how to fix the issue.  Is there anyway of turning off stack 
> smashing detection, etc?

When compiling try this option:

-fno-stack-protector

I think it should disable SSP during compile.

Also, take a look at this page:
http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/

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On 9 Jul 2007 14:52:19 -0000, 09sparky () gmail com <09sparky () gmail com> wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has encountered and overcome this issue:
>
>
> I am trying to install John v.1.72 on my Ubuntu 7.04 box.  John installs fine.  However, when I install "john-1.7.2-all-7.diff.gz" and 
> try to "./john --test " the patch I get the following error: "Benchmarking: Kerberos v5 TGT [krb5 3DES (des3-cbc-sha1)]... *** 
> stack smashing detected ***: ./john terminated
>
> Aborted (core dumped)"
>
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? if so, please share how to fix the issue.  Is there anyway of turning off stack 
> smashing detection, etc?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Sparky
>
>
>
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