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| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="person"> |
| <email>blueness@gentoo.org</email> |
| <description>Primary Maintainer</description> |
| </maintainer> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>hardened@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo Hardened</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription>Test suite for the PaX kernel patch |
| PaX is a Linux kernel patch which adds much stricter control on how memory |
| is being used by applications. A normal Linux kernel leaves the control to the |
| application and does not implement any enforcement. Especially buffer overflow |
| attacks benefit from the absense of kernel enforced memory control. PaX tries |
| to do its best to enforce this control of memory used by applications, thereby |
| making it harder to succesfully exploit buffer overflows. |
| |
| Furthermore, it adds several randomisations, which also make it harder for |
| buffer overflows to succeed. |
| |
| The test programs test all this functionality, but not all PaX functionality |
| is covered. |
| |
| For more information about PaX, see http://pageexec.virtualave.net/. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |