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25 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<maintainer type="project">
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<email>hardened@gentoo.org</email>
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<name>Gentoo Hardened</name>
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</maintainer>
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<longdescription>Test suite for the PaX kernel patch
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PaX is a Linux kernel patch which adds much stricter control on how memory
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is being used by applications. A normal Linux kernel leaves the control to the
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application and does not implement any enforcement. Especially buffer overflow
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attacks benefit from the absense of kernel enforced memory control. PaX tries
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to do its best to enforce this control of memory used by applications, thereby
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making it harder to succesfully exploit buffer overflows.
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Furthermore, it adds several randomisations, which also make it harder for
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buffer overflows to succeed.
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The test programs test all this functionality, but not all PaX functionality
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is covered.
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For more information about PaX, see http://pageexec.virtualave.net/.
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</longdescription>
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</pkgmetadata>
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