Re: die() required on pax-mark?

Allan Wegan <allanwegan-ORSfXGZZcQqShm5Tz/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.hardened
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> But, after we drop PT_PAX, this is only *worse* for the people in
> (1.a). That's a much smaller group than /everyone/ who switches to
> hardened.

There seems to be the theoretical possibility of dropping XT_PAX instead
of PT_PAX. The correct work of PAX markings would then not depend on the
file system used. Therefore users with and without capable file systems
could switch to hardened freely, since all the pax-markings would have
been succeessfully applied to the executables.

I am only a user of Gentoo Hardened (amd64) and do not know, why that
option seems would not be a viable path.
Is it because of self-checking binary blobs?
Perhaps, it should be at least a valid choice to not drop (legacy?)
PT_PAX markings - just in case you want to use hardened without xattr or
want to upgrade from vanilla.



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Allan Wegan
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