James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> scanelf is a tool one can use to find which programs have an executable
> stack. For security reasons, and executable stack should be avoided if
> at all possible.
> 
> scanelf -Rqe /usr/lib/openoffice/*
> 
> results in a lot of openoffice having an executable stack.
> e.g.
> RWX --- ---  /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
> 
> Can openoffice developers take some care so as to avoid this.
> It makes exploits so much easier to do in openoffice, and making the
> stack only RW- would result in openoffice being a lot more secure.
> 
> Some guidelines on how to correct these problems can be found here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> James
> 

Have I posted this to the wrong mailing list?

Is there a security email address I should post this to instead?

Kind Regards

James

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