Subject: Re: segvguard [was: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys]
To: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 12/11/2006 09:44:24
On Dec 8, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Simon Burge wrote:

> Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>> On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>
>>> I think so; we don't have an elf library. I agree though that it
>>> would be
>>> a lot better if paxctl did it. I will investigate some more.
>>
>> What about using libbfd?
>
> A "problem" here is that libbfd is GPL, not LGPL.  That said,
> at least mdsetimage and dbsym use libbfd in our source tree.

Right, we've deemed it not a "problem".  These are just considered to  
be "tools".

>
> Simon.

-- thorpej