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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: W^X enforcement
From:       Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <iam () juanfra ! info>
Date:       2016-03-31 21:45:09
Message-ID: 20160331214509.GA28203 () edda
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:44:58AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
[...]
> I generally reject the addition of security knobs, and push towards
> making the security choice mandatory, as early as possible.  We are
> not quite in the position of making this choice.  (Maybe a ports
> developer can list some programs that require WX memory today)

There is an external project for Arch Linux which keeps a list of the
programs incompatible with PaX's equivalent to W^X.

https://github.com/thestinger/paxd/blob/master/paxd.conf

The programs marked with "m" are incompatible.

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Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info

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