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@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ 19. Build 19.1 roffit + 19.2 Enable PIE and RELRO by default 20. Test suite 20.1 SSL tunnel @@ -1014,6 +1015,19 @@ that doesn't exist on the server, just like --ftp-create-dirs. Consider extending 'roffit' to produce decent ASCII output, and use that instead of (g)nroff when building src/tool_hugehelp.c +19.2 Enable PIE and RELRO by default + + Especially when having programs that execute cURL via the command line, PIE + renders the exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities a lot more + difficult. This can be attributed to the additional information leaks being + required to conduct a successful attack. RELRO, on the other hand, masks + different binary sections like the GOT as read-only and thus kills a handful + of techniques that come in handy when attackers are able to arbitrarily + overwrite memory. A few tests showed that enabling these features had close + to no impact, neither on the performance nor on the general functionality of + cURL. + + 20. Test suite 20.1 SSL tunnel |