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glibc 2.33 introduced a new fortification level, _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3.
Which improves the coverage of cases where _FORTIFY_SOURCE can use _chk
functions. For example, using GCC 13 and glibc 2.36 (Fedora Rawhide),
compiling master:
```bash
nm -C src/bitcoind | grep _chk
U __fprintf_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __memcpy_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __snprintf_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __sprintf_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __stack_chk_fail@GLIBC_2.17
U __stack_chk_guard@GLIBC_2.17
U __vsnprintf_chk@GLIBC_2.17
objdump -d src/bitcoind | grep "_chk@plt" | wc -l
33
```
vs this branch:
```bash
nm -C src/bitcoind | grep _chk
U __fprintf_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __memcpy_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __memset_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __snprintf_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __sprintf_chk@GLIBC_2.17
U __stack_chk_fail@GLIBC_2.17
U __stack_chk_guard@GLIBC_2.17
U __vsnprintf_chk@GLIBC_2.17
objdump -d src/bitcoind | grep "_chk@plt" | wc -l
61
```
Usage of level 3 requires LLVM/Clang 9+, or GCC 12+. Older
compilers/glibc will still use _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2. For example, in the
glibc we currently use for Linux release builds (2.24), FORTIFY_LEVEL is
determined using the following:
```c
```
so any value > 1 will turn on _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-February/122207.htmlhttps://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/04/16/broadening-compiler-checks-for-buffer-overflows-in-_fortify_source
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