Hi, On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:39:01PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:51:28AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > Hello! Please enable PIE support in the build, since this is correctly > > handled in the upstream build scripts (and is an upstream default). > > This gains a measure of additional security on kernels that randomize > > relocatable program segments. > > Bug #346416 is the reason this was disabled in the first place.
That should be a bug in gdb, not in samba. Bug 346409 is open with a patch to handle PIE. > Does gdb handle PIE better these days? Currently Debian's gdb does not handle PIE. The above bug, if closed, would solve this. -- Kees Cook @debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org