Here's the answer from the PaX team, for those who might be interested: * pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-11-13 14:18]: > On 13 Nov 2008 at 11:03, Wolfram Schlich wrote: > > --8<-- > > 2008-11-13 07:38:34 +01:00; hafw2; kern.notice; kernel: ip4t_FW DENY_IN: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX SRC=XX.XXX.XX.XX DST=XX.XX.XXX.X LEN=48 TO > > S=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=118 ID=23801 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2608 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 > > 2008-11-13 07:38:34 +01:00; hafw2; kern.err; kernel: PAX: execution attempt in: <NULL>, 00000000-00000000 00000000 > > 2008-11-13 07:38:34 +01:00; hafw2; kern.err; kernel: PAX: terminating task: /usr/sbin/conntrackd(conntrackd):6562, uid/euid: 0/0, PC: 0000000000000000, SP: 0000797077f7ea48 > > 2008-11-13 07:38:34 +01:00; hafw2; kern.err; kernel: PAX: bytes at PC: ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? > > 2008-11-13 07:38:34 +01:00; hafw2; kern.err; kernel: PAX: bytes at SP-8: > > 2008-11-13 07:38:34 +01:00; hafw2; kern.alert; kernel: grsec: denied resource overstep by requesting 4096 for RLIMIT_CORE against limit 0 for /usr/sbin/conntrackd[conntrackd: > > 6562] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0 > > --8<-- > > > > The log messages look somewhat strange, especially the 'NULL', > > '000..' and '??' parts :) I've always only seen such messages > > with a more meaningful content so far, thus I'm a bit confused. > > > > What might be the reason for that? > > this is a null function pointer dereference problem on the surface and you'll have to > debug it to get more info. i wonder why nothing shows up in the stack dump however, > maybe there's more corruption here behind the scenes. once you get the coredumps (and > i hope you have debug info saved away ;) we can get a backtrace and other things. also > disable randomization in /proc/sys/... so that results are comparable. best would be > to find a way to directly trigger this crash, then you could have a live gdb session > instead of coredump analysis. I'll take care of these suggestions now and let you know about any news. -- Regards, Wolfram Schlich <wschlich@xxxxxxxxxx> Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
