Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From:	Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-hardened] Running Skype on Hardened
Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:01:41
Message-Id:	`92154.6474.bm@smtp126.mail.ukl.yahoo.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-hardened] Running Skype on Hardened by Sven Vermeulen

1	On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:23:06 +0000
2	Sven Vermeulen wrote:
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4	> You can try to make it a valid ELF header first, and then paxmark it.
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6	I'm sure it's unrelated as I'd guess skype would give the error mesage
7	and shouldn't be able to overwrite it's binary but there's a new CONFIG
8	in the recent grsecurity test patches to allow paxmarking without paxctl
9	apparently because skype refuses to run a modified binary.