ELF/PaX Utilities

What	How
HOMEPAGE	https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/PaX_Utilities
GIT	git clone git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/pax-utils.git
VIEWVCS	https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pax-utils.git/
STATUS

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 macOS 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.

Building and installing

pax-utils uses a bog-standard meson-based build system. See meson_options.txt for configuration options.

You don't need PaX to use the pax-utils. In fact the only thing they really have in common is that pax-utils was initially written to aid in deploying PaX systems so it includes support for PT_PAX_FLAGS and the deprecated but still in use EI_PAX flags. For more information about PaX see the homepage at https://pax.grsecurity.net/

Links

If you include pax-utils in your distro, feel free to send an update for this.

Gentoo

• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/PaX_Utilities
• https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pax-utils.git/
• Maintainer: Mike Frysinger [email protected], Toolchain Project [email protected]
• Original author: Ned Ludd [email protected]

openSUSE

• https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=pax-utils&project=openSUSE%3AFactory
• Maintainer: [email protected]

Ubuntu

• https://packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/pax-utils
• Maintainer: [email protected]

Debian

• https://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/pax-utils
• https://bugs.debian.org/388200
• Maintainer: [email protected]

FreeBSD

• https://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=sysutils&portname=pax-utils
• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pax-utils/
• http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-cvs-all&a=2006-08&m=2311441
• Maintainer: [email protected]

OpenEmedded

• https://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages/pax-utils

Crux

• https://magog.se/crux/pax-utils/Pkgfile
• Maintainer: [email protected]

Fedora

• https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pax-utils
• Maintainer: Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski [email protected]

ArchLinux

• https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pax-utils/