Patches item #1560695, was opened at 2006-09-18 14:23 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1560695&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Chaza (masterdriverz) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Exec stacks in python 2.5 Initial Comment: Python 2.5 contains executable stacks. Attached patch fixes this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-09-20 19:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Ah, so the patch doesn't actually fix that Python 2.5 contains executable stacks. It rather makes it execute successfully on a hardened system. Still, I don't understand what you mean by "Python contains executable stacks". Where does it do so? And what precisely breaks on a hardened system when Python is running on it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Chaza (masterdriverz) Date: 2006-09-20 13:58 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1096685 It is probably best summed up here -> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml but put simply, executable stacks don't work on hardened systems. The simplest way to fix them is to explicitly tell gcc to compile libraries without executable stacks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-09-20 08:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Can you please elaborate? What is an "executable stack", why does Python have one, why is that bad, and how does your patch fix that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1560695&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Patches mailing list Patches@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/patches
