Re: [Exim] PAX terminating exim 4.14

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc MERLIN
CC: exim-users, Nico Erfurth
Subject: Re: [Exim] PAX terminating exim 4.14
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> Philip, PAX is meant to help against buffer overflows and creates a non
> executable stack.
> I'm not much of a x86 expert, but PAX killed exim with a SIGKILL because
> EIP: 00002A42, ESP: 5909799C
> I suppose that means EIP is incorrect which is why PAX killed exim.


Aha. I now understand where the SIGKILL came from. I was assuming it was
human-generated.

> If I were to guess, I'd be looking at GnuTLS.


It it quite new code, so yes, I'd agree.

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