[gentoo-hardened] Weird coincidental PAX crashes

2014-05-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Last week, the LMTP daemon on our mail server (HP DL360 G6) crashed. People noticed that the mail stopped coming in, so I SSHed in to check on it, and there were some weird traces in the dmesg. While trying to investigate, I noticed some more badness: # emerge -1 openntpd Calculating dependenc

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Weird coincidental PAX crashes

2014-05-09 Thread Mark Gomersbach
Maybe a bug somewhere else too, which combination kernel/grsec/pax was used? On 05/09/2014 05:15 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Last week, the LMTP daemon on our mail server (HP DL360 G6) crashed. > People noticed that the mail stopped coming in, so I SSHed in to check > on it, and there were some

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Weird coincidental PAX crashes

2014-05-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/09/2014 11:29 AM, Mark Gomersbach wrote: > Maybe a bug somewhere else too, which combination kernel/grsec/pax was used? > Whatever came with sys-kernel/hardened-sources-3.11.7-r1: # uname -a Linux mmmc2 3.11.7-hardened-r1 #1 SMP Fri Jan 3 23:13:48 EST 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Weird coincidental PAX crashes

2014-05-09 Thread Tóth Attila
I encourage you to upgrade your kernel to the latest available in the tree. Even if its keyworded currently. Such things pop up sometimes, come and go. Grsec/PaX developers (spender/pipacs/ephox) fixes most of these pretty quickly. I would also check out grsecurity support forums. -- dr Tóth Attil