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authorCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2013-09-23 00:52:09 -0400
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2013-09-23 00:52:09 -0400
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BZ #15754: CVE-2013-4788
The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not initialized for
static applications resulting in the security feature being disabled.
The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a random value for
static applications. Existing static applications need to be
recompiled to take advantage of the fix.

The test tst-ptrguard1-static and tst-ptrguard1 add regression
coverage to ensure the pointer guards are sufficiently random
and initialized to a default value.
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