[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] [COPY] Filename: package/.../paxctl/paxctl.desc [COPY] Copyright (C) 2007 - 2008 The OpenSDE Project [COPY] [COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README. [COPY] [COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify [COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by [COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the [COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING. [COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- [I] A user-space utility to control PaX flags [T] paxctl is a tool that allows PaX flags to be modified on a per-binary basis. [T] PaX is part of common security-enhancing kernel patches like grsecurity and [T] RSBAC. Your system needs to be running a properly patched and configured [T] kernel for this program to have any effect. [T] The PaX patch for the Linux kernel provides two ways to harden a system: [T] 1. Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), which provides randomization [T] of the addressing scheme of all data loaded into memory. [T] When an application is built as a Position Independent Executable (PIE), [T] PaX is also able to randomize the addresses of the application base [T] additionally. [T] 2. Non-Executable Memory, which prevents a common form of attack where [T] executable code is inserted into memory by an attacker. [U] http://pax.grsecurity.net [A] The PaX Team [M] Christian Wiese [C] extra/security [L] OpenSource [S] Stable [V] 0.5-1 [P] X -----5---9 110.000 [D] 1979315920 paxctl-0.5.tar.gz http://pax.grsecurity.net/ [D] 1902049591 pax-linux-2.6.24.4-test41.patch http://grsecurity.net/test/