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Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:06:20 -0400
From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@...too.org>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: overview of PaX features

On 06/29/2011 03:43 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> Vasiliy,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:37:28PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
>> That's not only about old apps, but also a default relaxed policy for
>> the toolchain:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml
> 
> Of course.  In my experience, most programs that currently get
> executable stack actually don't need it.
> 

Ditto.  When we couldn't fix the source code, we used to use execstack
from the prelink package to remove the X flag from PT_GNU_STACK phdrs.
Recently I wrote fix-gnustack.c to avoid all the extra prelink stuff [1]
and we're using that now.

Ref.

   [1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/elfix.git;a=summary

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