Hello James,

you may want to post it on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks,

Charles.

James Courtier-Dutton a écrit :
> 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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