Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Tóth Attila" <atoth@××××××××××.hu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] PaX kills Tor due to overflow
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:04:01
Message-Id: 9ba511dfe887daf8130af48494b9b5ef.squirrel@atoth.sote.hu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] PaX kills Tor due to overflow by Karl-Johan Karlsson
1 It's because of the size_overflow plugin.
2 Take a look at this bug:
3 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430906
4
5 It is promised to get fixed soon.
6
7 Regards:
8 Dw.
9 --
10 dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057
11 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057
12
13 2012.Augusztus 20.(H) 17:43 időpontban Karl-Johan Karlsson ezt írta:
14 > On Monday 20 August 2012 11.26.15 Matthew Finkel wrote:
15 >> Are you running Tor as a relay or is is only used as a client?
16 >
17 > It's a relay. It's usually a client as well, but nobody is using that
18 > functionality at the moment. It is not an exit node.
19 >
20 >> Also,
21 >> what version of Tor and what version of the kernel are you running?
22 >
23 > sys-kernel/hardened-sources-3.4.4-r1 configured without SELinux and with:
24 >
25 > [*] Grsecurity
26 > Configuration Method (Automatic) --->
27 > Usage Type (Server) --->
28 > Virtualization Type (Host) --->
29 > Virtualization Hardware (EPT/RVI Processor Support) --->
30 > Virtualization Software (KVM) --->
31 > Required Priorities (Security) --->
32 >
33 > I'm not sure when these crashes started, but I've seen them at least since
34 > net-misc/tor-0.2.3.19_rc. I'm now on net-misc/tor-0.2.3.20_rc.
35 >
36 > --
37 > Karl-Johan Karlsson