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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] 2.6.27-hardened-r8: assassination
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:52:16
Message-Id: 4D76965E.2050205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] 2.6.27-hardened-r8: assassination by Mike Frysinger
1 On 03/08/2011 02:05 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alex Efros wrote:
3 >> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:25:16PM -0800, Ned Ludd wrote:
4 >>>> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:12:59PM +0200, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
5 >>>>> ah crap, i know what it is. it's a several years old glibc bug where someone
6 >>>>> put a certain variable into the RELRO segment but forgot that it'll be written
7 >>>>> to later when a library with RWE GNU_STACK is loaded. the workaround is
8 >>>>> to find that library (just extract them from strace, probably it'll be
9 >>>>> pari's library) and run execstack -c on it.
10 >>>>
11 >>>> I don't have execstack command. Looks like it belong to prelink package,
12 >>>> but http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml states it's
13 >>>> incompatible with hardened. Because of this I decide to compile it
14 >>>> manually, just to get execstack command:
15 >>>>
16 >>>> # emerge -f prelink
17 >>>> # cd /usr/src
18 >>>> # tar xjvf /usr/portage-distfiles/prelink-20071009.tar.bz2
19 >>>> # cd prelink
20 >>>> # ./configure && make
21 >>>>
22 >>>> Now I tried your workaround:
23 >>>>
24 >>>> # /usr/src/prelink/src/execstack -c /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux/auto/Math/Pari/Pari.so
25 >>>> # /usr/src/prelink/src/execstack -c /usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
26 >>>> # /usr/src/prelink/src/execstack -c /usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
27 >>>> # /usr/src/prelink/src/execstack -c /usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so
28 >>>> # /usr/src/prelink/src/execstack -c /usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.0/php-5.2.x/ZendOptimizer.so
29 >>>>
30 >>>> and it works!!
31 >>>>
32 >>>> Is this issue will be fixed in next stable hardened-sources?
33 >>>
34 >>> FYI.. PaX Team maintains the PaX kernel and has little control over what
35 >>> fixes go into the "next" hardened-sources. Also seems to me a little
36 >>> strange that the PaX Team would have to put a work-around in the kernel
37 >>> for a bug in glibc.. Seems like glibc should be fixed vs the kernel.
38 >>
39 >> 2 years later… Just updated system, bug still exists, and I still have to
40 >> use execstack workaround for zendoptimizer and ioncube.
41 >
42 > like they said, this doesnt seem to be a bug in the kernel, so the pax
43 > source arent going to be changing
44 >
45 > if there's a bug in glibc, an actual bug in bugs.g.o needs to be
46 > opened with real details/patches. otherwise, nothing is going to
47 > change.
48 > -mike
49
50 Nothing to say that Mike hasn't already said. pipacs knows about this
51 but what can he do? Good luck with upstream glibc. Next time I speak
52 with pipacs I can bring it up, see if anything is changing. I doubt it.
53
54 Take a look at [1] for a good laugh.
55
56
57 Ref:
58
59 [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12492
60
61 --
62 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
63 Gentoo Developer

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-hardened] 2.6.27-hardened-r8: assassination Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-hardened] 2.6.27-hardened-r8: assassination Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××.name>