Executable stack in libxvidcore4

[John Moser]

Binary package hint: libxvidcore4

Use this patch from Gentoo to remove the executable stack on libxvidcore4:

ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/xvid-1.1.0-noexec-stack.patch.bz2

Rationale as per [1].

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. Do you still have this issue with the latest release of Ubuntu ?

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Any news on this ?

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Fix for this will be uploaded after alpha freeze lifts.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xvidcore - 2:1.1.2-0.1ubuntu4

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xvidcore (2:1.1.2-0.1ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low

  * Add 50_non-exec-stack.dpatch: disable executable stacks on all assembly
    files (LP: #49387).

 -- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:02:27 -0700