mobile-shell / mobile-shell/mosh
Update C/C++ hardening
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- C++
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Description
Many of the extra hardening flags that the Mosh configure script selects are now standard in Debian, for example. There are various newer efforts at hardening C/C++ code against attacks that we should investigate.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the Mosh configure script and its current C/C++ hardening flags, then compare them with Debian's standard flags and newer hardening efforts. Define which hardening changes are appropriate and update the configuration accordingly, with the build remaining successful afterward.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, cpp
- Domain
- build-system, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100