[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#654793: Bug#654793: Hardening flags not fully enabled

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:45:16PM +0200, marius adrian popa wrote:
> 
> Weird that firebird2.5-superclassic in ubuntu lucid shows
> hardening-check /usr/sbin/fb_smp_server
> /usr/sbin/fb_smp_server
> /usr/sbin/fb_smp_server:
>  Position Independent Executable: no, normal executable!
>  Stack protected: yes
>  Fortify Source functions: yes
>  Read-only relocations: yes
>  Immediate binding: no, not found!
> 
> hardening-check /usr/bin/fbsvcmgr
> /usr/bin/fbsvcmgr:
>  Position Independent Executable: no, normal executable!
>  Stack protected: yes
>  Fortify Source functions: yes
>  Read-only relocations: yes
>  Immediate binding: no, not found!
> 
> And is build from Damyan repository
> 
> filename: pool/main/f/firebird2.5/firebird2.5-superclassic_2.5.1.26351.ds4-2~bpo60+1ubuntu3_amd64.deb
> http://jimicompot.blogspot.com/2011/11/rebuilding-firebird-251-from-stable-to.html

I never used Ubuntu, from what I know Ubuntu patches GCC to enable the
hardened build flags by default in the compiler.

Cheers,
        Moritz