570914 – W^X JIT is now enabled by default in firefox

Bug 570914 - W^X JIT is now enabled by default in firefox

Summary: W^X JIT is now enabled by default in firefox

Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Hardened (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Assignee:	The Gentoo Linux Hardened Team

URL:	https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-centra...
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Reported:	2016-01-04 22:46 UTC by Aric Belsito
Modified:	2016-01-16 04:39 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Aric Belsito 2016-01-04 22:46:31 UTC

In Firefox 45.0 we can reenable pax on the firefox and firefox-bin binaries.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Aric Belsito 2016-01-04 22:48:01 UTC

Correction, Firefox 46.0

Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2016-01-04 22:57:01 UTC

We are not even close to 45 or 46 release.

Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2016-01-16 04:39:42 UTC

Firefox-44.0_beta9 is now in the mozilla overlay, I have backported the change to enable by default in gentoo. I have had success on my setup would like feedback from others.