Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-hardened] VMware-related bug
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:02:30
Message-Id: 20100708183636.GB22867@home.power
1 Hi!
2
3 While discussing inability to run 64-bit VMware guests on 32-bit Gentoo
4 Hardened host I got reply: it's because of GrSec/Pax bug related to
5
6 "way that vmap(..., VM_PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC) may map a page as
7 non-executable, despite the flag requesting an executable mapping":
8 http://communities.vmware.com/message/1567187#1567187
9
10 I wonder which hardened-source will include fix for this issue?
11 Is candidate for next stable (2.6.32-r?) have it?
12
13 --
14 WBR, Alex.

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] VMware-related bug Brian Kroth <bpkroth@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-hardened] VMware-related bug pageexec@××××××××.hu