From 64e2dc97c4e8f1d4c68a7062f31b6713a1cb818d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: deraadt <> Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 09:44:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Randomize link-order of libcrypto as we do with libc. This library has many small functions without significant local storage, therefore less tail protection from -fstack-protector-strong to prevent their use as ROP gadgets. It is used in security contexts. Also many functions dribble pointers onto the stack, allowing discovery of gadgets via the fixed relative addresses, so let's randomly bias those. ok tedu jsing The rc script will soon need a strategy for skipping this step on machines with poor IO performance. Or maybe do it less often? However, I don't see many more libraries we'll do this with, these are the two most important ones. --- src/etc/rc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/etc/rc b/src/etc/rc index b60da0f6..ae73f2ff 100644 --- a/src/etc/rc +++ b/src/etc/rc @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $OpenBSD: rc,v 1.495 2017/05/01 14:01:47 rpe Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: rc,v 1.496 2017/05/29 09:44:01 deraadt Exp $ # System startup script run by init on autoboot or after single-user. # Output and error are redirected to console by init, and the console is the @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ reorder_libs() { echo -n 'reordering libraries:' # Only choose the latest version of the libraries. - for _liba in /usr/lib/libc.so.*.a; do + for _liba in /usr/lib/libc.so.*.a /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.*.a; do _liba=$(ls ${_liba%%.[0-9]*}*.a | sort -V | tail -1) for _l in $_libas; do [[ $_l == $_liba ]] && continue 2