From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19122 invoked by uid 1002); 31 Aug 2003 15:01:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14447 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2003 15:01:30 -0000 From: Ned Ludd Reply-To: solar@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Skv0H8lTRPJFlr4IyUwE" Organization: Gentoo Linux Developer (Hardened) Message-Id: <1062341934.4083.7860.camel@simple> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 31 Aug 2003 10:58:55 -0400 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Porting PaX to the ia64 X-Archives-Salt: 1ffe1613-3406-42ed-b565-f9d87ded8377 X-Archives-Hash: ab3699c7b5650b3119ce5122f3662e04 --=-Skv0H8lTRPJFlr4IyUwE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quote from the PaX docs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of the PaX project is to research various defense mechanisms against the exploitation of software bugs that give an attacker arbitrary read/write access to the attacked task's address space. This class of bugs contains among others various forms of buffer overflow bugs (be they stack or heap based), user supplied format string bugs, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have an ia64 and your bold, brave and want to be on the bleeding edge of security solutions then your in luck. The PaX Team has come up with with an experimental patch for the ia64 that needs some testing from a few somebody's that own or have root access to ia64 Grab yourself these three files to begin testing. * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2 * http://pageexec.virtualave.net/pax-linux-2.4.22-200308271615.patch * http://grsecurity.net/~paxguy1/pax-linux-2.4.22.patch.ia64 unpack the kernel add the pax-linux-2.4.22-200308271615.patch add the pax-linux-2.4.22.patch.ia64 Enable pax in your kernel with as many options as your willing to help test. Compile the kernel # make menuconfig=20 # make dep bzImage modules modules_install tell your bootloader to use the arch/ia64/bzImage file reboot and report success/failures via email to pageexec@freemail.hu and or real-time on irc.freenode.net in #pax --=20 Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux Developer (Hardened) --=-Skv0H8lTRPJFlr4IyUwE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUAP1INLp4WFLgrx1GWAQJSMwP/Qt+vf2kqU+qla2exmKPSIW0LS3E1Vo9Y wv1TFu56Dc7nAkGmMcWP/4cUL/hxjKoGR7X4AsvaF2u2+ZssuH0JqioxPWMEHZi5 3JguW5Sc5VmiOFHJPVOD4PQQiswuI8+kXEoINP1AiMNMK4chxuOo5wHBltNdq7fz QsWjpREUFB4= =7q8y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Skv0H8lTRPJFlr4IyUwE--