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pax-utils-1.3.11

ELF related utils for ELF 32/64 binaries

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Description

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 OS X 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.

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Ports path
devel/pax-utils
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Frederic Cambus <fcambus@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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