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ELF/PaX Utilities

What How
HOMEPAGE https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/PaX_Utilities
GIT git clone git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/pax-utils.git
VIEWVCS https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pax-utils.git/
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pax-utils is a small set of utilities for performing Q/A (mostly security) checks on systems (most notably, scanelf). It is focused on the ELF format, but does include a Mach-O helper too for macOS systems.

While heavily integrated into Gentoo's build system, it can be used on any distro as it is a generic toolset.

Originally focused only on PaX, it has been expanded to be generally security focused. It still has a good number of PaX helpers for people interested in that.

Building and installing

pax-utils uses a bog-standard meson-based build system. See meson_options.txt for configuration options.

You don't need PaX to use the pax-utils. In fact the only thing they really have in common is that pax-utils was initially written to aid in deploying PaX systems so it includes support for PT_PAX_FLAGS and the deprecated but still in use EI_PAX flags. For more information about PaX see the homepage at https://pax.grsecurity.net/

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If you include pax-utils in your distro, feel free to send an update for this.

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