Hello, On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:34:33 +0000 [email protected] wrote:
> Hi, > > mprotect (and ASLR) are security measures that not all pkgsrc packages > can survive, so some packages had NOT_PAX_MPROTECT_SAFE set for some > binaries, to disable it. > > However the condition for using NOT_PAX_MPROTECT_SAFE was incorrectly > only done for NetBSD/amd64. > > The outcome should've been things like (only on -current, stable is > unaffected as it doesn't have pax mprotect enabled): > - Firefox crashes > - Libreoffice segfaults during build > etc. Midori ( and likely everything else using webkit ) has a similar problem - it doesn't crash, but javascript doesn't work until all the mprotect stuff is disabled. have fun Michael
