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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