There are still some programs that have executable stack regions.

• open bugs in LP

• check an ELF binary: "readelf -l $BIN | grep GNU_STACK" shows with "E" flag.

• Gentoo write-up of what to do: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml

Main/Restricted Packages

Originally generated from the ELF files with executable stacks in Karmic main.

Fixed

• zip
• bogl

Nested Functions

Uses Nested Functions which compiler generates as trampolines on the stack.

• grub

• grub2 upstream bug

Stack Trampolines

• klibc (setjmp implementation)
• kexec-tools (statically linked against klibc)

Shipped Precompiled Binary

• fglrx-installer
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-173
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-71
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-96

Unclassified

• icon
• john
• link-grammar
• mbr
• memtest86+
• mono
• openjdk-6

Fedora Patches

• http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/gdk-pixbuf/gtk+-2.2.2-noexecstack.patch?view=markup

• http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/libdv/libdv-0.104-no-exec-stack.patch?view=markup

• http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/lightning/lightning-1.2-execstack.patch?view=markup

• http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/net-tools/net-tools-1.60-execshield.patch?view=markup

• http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/net-tools/netplug-1.2.9-execshield.patch?view=markup

• http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/ocaml/ocaml-3.11-dev12-no-executable-stack.patch?view=markup

• http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/qimageblitz/qimageblitz-0.0.4-noexecstack.patch?view=markup

• http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/mlton/mlton-20070826-no-execmem.patch?view=markup