W executable-stack-in-shared-library
The listed shared library declares the stack as executable.
Executable stack is usually an error as it is only needed if the code contains GCC trampolines or similar constructs which uses code on the stack. One possible source for false positives are object files built from assembler files which don't define a proper .note.GNU-stack section.
To see the permissions on the stack, run readelf -l on the
shared library and look for the program header of type GNU_STACK. In the
flag column, there should not be an E flag set.
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.111.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ffc17eb. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check libraries/shared/stack.
Visibility: warning
- shlib-with-executable-stack