Announcing security hardened kernels for testing
Markus Kolb
ubuntu-ml at tower-net.de
Tue Jan 4 09:57:51 CST 2005
Martin Pitt wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 16:16:55 +0100:
> Hello to all security addicts out there!
[...]
> - Some programs (most notably X.org and OpenOffice.org) still rely on
> executing writeable memory, so the PaX protection has to be
> disabled for them. You have to install the "chpax" package and
> execute the following commands before everything will work:
>
Any ideas how long the list of "some" programs might be?
I could get bad experience some time ago.
Markus
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