Steve Langasek wrote: > See bugs 321720, 321721, 321723, and 321724 in the BTS. The bug in openssl > has been fixed in unstable, and that fix should soon propagate to testing; a > related bug was fixed in libacl1 before the sarge release.
Nice to see that these kind of bugs are being addressed. I'll apply the workaround. You can close this ticket. This is the response I've received from grsec's developper: "The workaround is fine. The main problem is that glibc was forcing an exit of the application if its improperly set PT_GNU_STACK was being set on the application. Regardless though (both with and without the workaround), the packages with the improper PT_GNU_STACK settings should be fixed soon, since exec-shield users will have the stack improperly set as executable in those applications (which due to exec-shield's implementation, makes the entire address space of that application executable). Gentoo has applied the same workaround by the way, a long time ago. -Brad" Thanks to both Steve & Brad. Cheers, -Román
