Re: [libdv-dev] [PATCH] Make libdv not use an executable stack

[Dan D. <da...@de...>]

Your attached patch came through as some base64-encoded chunk. Please
resend as inline text. Thanks.

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 21:20 -0800, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> On i386 and AMD64 systems, /usr/lib/libdv.so.4.0.1 is erroneously
> marked as requiring an
> executable stack. This is because it uses several assembler source files that do
> not contain a .note.GNU-stack section indicating that an executable stack is
> unnecessary. As a result, any application which links to libdv.so.4 has an
> executable stack. This is a security risk.
> 
> Attached is a patch which adds these sections to each of the assembler
> source files included in libdv CVS.