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Bug 517836 - app-emulation/vmware-player-6.0.2.1744117 QA Notice: Writable and executable sections
Summary: app-emulation/vmware-player-6.0.2.1744117 QA Notice: Writable and executable ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Reported: 2014-07-22 23:57 UTC by Michael Rowell
Modified: 2015-09-12 20:00 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Rowell 2014-07-22 23:57:50 UTC
The build.log of vmware-player contained the following message:

 * QA Notice: The following files contain writable and executable sections
 *  Files with such sections will not work properly (or at all!) on some
 *  architectures/operating systems.  A bug should be filed at
 *  http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the issue is fixed.
 *  For more information, see http://hardened.gentoo.org/gnu-stack.xml
 *  Please include the following list of files in your report:
 *  Note: Bugs should be filed for the respective maintainers
 *  of the package in question and not hardened@g.o.
 * RWX --- --- opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-stats
 * RWX --- --- opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-debug
 * RWX --- --- opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx

Filing bug as directed.
Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2015-09-12 20:00:18 UTC
Fixed in workstation-11.1.2 and plaer-7.1.2 in the overlay, moving to the main tree soon.