* Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed update to pax-utils.eclass
@ 2013-03-25 0:20 99% ` Anthony G. Basile
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From: Anthony G. Basile @ 2013-03-25 0:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 03/17/2013 08:19 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The hardened team has been working on getting PaX markings moved to
> Extended Attributes rather then putting them in a program header of
> the ELF binaries [1]. The motivation here is that this is a generally
> safer way of doing PaX markings since mangling an ELF binary can break
> things [2].
>
> The last step in the process is getting an eclass on the tree which
> does both xattr as well as elf phdr based PaX markings. We've been
> testing one for a while and we think we've clobbered all the bugs. The
> eclass deviates significantly from the one on the tree, so a I'm not
> sure a diff is the best way to present it. The current version is on
> the hardened-dev overay [3]. It also makes use of a new utility
> called paxctl-ng which does what paxctl did but also with xattr [4].
>
> You may want to look at some documentation too. A updated discussion
> of PaX which includes xattr stuff is at [5]. A migration guide is at
> [6].
>
> Please review. We are in no rush to get this done, so if you find
> bugs or have concerns, add blockers to the tracker [1].
>
>
> Ref.
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427888
>
> [2] eg skype, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461668
>
> [3]
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/hardened-dev.git;a=blob;f=eclass/pax-utils.eclass;h=b27d5e2f6e503cf47e9e321e441f1fe8c9c1dbd8;hb=646c49292c140491c3e1aee58a82f3c3b6a4e99f
>
> [4] This is part of the sys-apps/elfix package. The repo is at
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/elfix.git;a=summary
>
> [5] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/pax-quickstart.xml
>
> [6] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/pax-migrate-xattr.xml
>
>
Last call, does anyone have a problem with me updating the
pax-utils.eclass? See Ref [3] above for the code. I'll wait a couple
more days and then do it.
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
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