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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] miro segfaults when PAX is not in softmode
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:54:24
Message-Id: 49bf44f10904050854n1dc7a679pb5b4d9b32c289f15@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] miro segfaults when PAX is not in softmode by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 >> I use a program called miro a lot, but since upgrading to gcc-4.3.3,
2 >> it segfaults if I don't issue:
3 >
4 > what's the package name? or what ebuild do you use?
5 >
6 >> grsec: signal 11 sent to /usr/bin/miro.real[miro.real:19177]
7 >> uid/euid:1000/1000 gid/egid:100/100, parent /usr/bin/miro[miro:19176]
8 >> uid/euid:1000/1000 gid/egid:100/100
9 >>
10 >> and since miro.real is a python script:
11 >
12 > in that case you have to use paxctl on the python interpreter, not
13 > the script. but before that it's better to find out why it crashes,
14 > so you should produce a coredump and analyze it.
15
16 Thank you, I ran 'paxctl -m /usr/bin/python' and now miro starts
17 without softmode enabled. I use the miro ebuild from this bug:
18
19 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131527
20
21 - Gramt

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