Bug#836365: gcc-mingw-w64: Please enable security features like ASLR and the NX bit in binaries by default

[Stephen Kitt] > That's a useful suggestion, thanks. After working on it a little, it seems to > me the easiest solution is to make these flags the default in ld (and add > "no-..." options to disable them). I've prepared a patch, it will be in the > next upload of binutils-mingw-w64 (soon since

Bug#836365: gcc-mingw-w64: Please enable security features like ASLR and the NX bit in binaries by default

Control: reassign -1 binutils-mingw-w64 Control: tag -1 + pending Hi Petter, On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 09:43:28 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The Windows binaries generated by mingw are less secure to run on > Windows than they could have been, and less secure than the

Bug#836365: gcc-mingw-w64: Please enable security features like ASLR and the NX bit in binaries by default

Package: src:gcc-mingw-w64 Version: 6.1.1-12+19.1 The Windows binaries generated by mingw are less secure to run on Windows than they could have been, and less secure than the equivalent binaries build by Microsoft Visual Studio. For example ASLR[1] and the NX bit[2] usable for memory space