Re: Sabotaged PaXtest

[John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>]

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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:57 +0100, Peter Busser wrote:
> 
>>Hi!

[...]

> the paxtest 0.9.6 that John Moser mailed to this list had this gem in
> it:
> @@ -39,8 +42,6 @@
>          */
>         int paxtest_mode = 1;
> 
> +       /* Dummy nested function */
> +       void dummy(void) {}
> 
>         mode = getenv( "PAXTEST_MODE" );
>         if( mode == NULL ) {
> 
> 
> which is clearly there with the only possible function of sabotaging the
> automatic PT_GNU_STACK setting by the toolchain (which btw is not fedora
> specific but happens by all new enough (3.3 or later) gcc compilers on
> all distros) since that requires an executable stack.

I'll say this AGAIN:  I execstack -c'd the directory after the first
borked up test and stuff randomly failed.  After upgrading FC3's kernel
though I got predictable results.


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