Package: wnpp Version: N/A reported 2003-11-29 Priority: wishlist
Upstream developer: Peter Busser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
License: GPL
$ dpkg --info paxtest_0.9.5-2_i386.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 23496 bytes: control archive= 1779 bytes.
981 bytes, 23 lines control
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Package: paxtest
Version: 0.9.5-2
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Installed-Size: 212
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: Test suite for the PaX kernel patch
PaX is a Linux kernel patch which adds much stricter control on how memory
is being used by applications. A normal Linux kernel leaves the control to the
application and does not implement any enforcement. Especially buffer overflow
attacks benefit from the absense of kernel enforced memory control. PaX tries
to do its best to enforce this control of memory used by applications, thereby
making it harder to succesfully exploit buffer overflows.
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Furthermore, it adds several randomisations, which also make it harder for
buffer overflows to succeed.
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The test programs test all this functionality, but not all PaX functionality
is covered.
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For more information about PaX, see http://pageexec.virtualave.net/.
Notice this will be the original paxtest package developed by Peter with
some (slight) changes.
Regards
Javier
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