Bug 81213

Summary:	no dlloader synaptics driver for x11 available
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Klaus Kusche <Klaus.Kusche>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ablyler, lars
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Klaus Kusche 2005-02-08 03:04:09 UTC

The ebuild x11-misc/synaptics always results in an "oldstyle" (elfloader) synaptics module for x, which requires pax mprotect to be turned off for the x11 server executable (Xorg).

It is not possible to configure the synaptics and the xorg-x11 ebuilds in a way which produces an x server which includes a synaptics driver and runs with pax mprotect: The static server does not contain the synaptics driver, and no dlloader synaptics module can be built for the dlloader server.

Comment 1 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-08 04:28:55 UTC

Not a vulnerability, reassigning

Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-08 07:08:06 UTC

Donnie, This seems like an UPSTREAM request.

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2005-02-08 09:02:55 UTC

or if you'd rather just do the postprocessing in the ebuild:

gcc -shared -nostdlib -o synaptics_drv.so synaptics_drv.o -Bstatic -lgcc

Comment 4 gad.kadosh 2005-10-24 16:49:46 UTC

dlloader is now supported in synaptics ebuild I think. Maybe synaptics should be moved to x11-drivers 
soon ?

Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-09 07:39:45 UTC

dlloader is supported in recent synaptics ebuilds. will look into moving this
package to x11-drivers category.