diff --git a/package/base/gcc/apply-protector.sh b/package/base/gcc/apply-protector.sh
index 8eb09f250..80d8eaccc 100644
--- a/package/base/gcc/apply-protector.sh
+++ b/package/base/gcc/apply-protector.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ pfile=$( echo "$3" | grep protector | tr ' ' '\t' | tr -s '\t' | cut -f2 )
 
 if [ "$pfile" ]
 then
-	tar --use-compress-program=bzip2 -xf $archdir/${pfile/.gz/.bz2}
+        tar='tar --use-compress-program=bzip2'
+        pdif=$($tar -tf $archdir/${pfile/.gz/.bz2} | grep '\.dif$')
+	$tar -xf $archdir/${pfile/.gz/.bz2}
 
 	# Patch protector.dif a bit to apply against current gcc-3
 	if test -f $1/package/base/gcc/$2/protector-hotfix.diff; then
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ then
 	# Set -fstack-protector as default?
 	# [ $ROCKCFG_PKG_GCC[23]_STACKPRO = 1 ] && patch -p0 < protectonly.dif
 
-	patch -p0 < protector.dif
+	patch -p0 < $pdif
 	if [ $2 != gcc34 ]; then
 		mv protector.{c,h} gcc/
 	fi
diff --git a/package/base/gcc/gcc.desc b/package/base/gcc/gcc.desc
index 87fcc31ac..2747773a9 100644
--- a/package/base/gcc/gcc.desc
+++ b/package/base/gcc/gcc.desc
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 #if xpkg == gcc34.*
 [V] 3.4.4
 [D] 1929991607 gcc-3.4.4.tar.bz2 ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-3.4.4/
-#[D] 870641564 protector-3.4-2.tar.gz http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/gcc3_4/
+[D] 365541092 protector-3.4.4-1.tar.gz http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/gcc3_4_4/
 #endif
 
 #if xpkg == gcc40