Bug#586472: ITP: checksec - A script that tests which standard security features are being used

[Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : checksec
  Version         : 1.3.1
  Upstream Author : Tobias Klein <tk@trapkit.de>
* URL             : http://www.trapkit.de/tools/checksec.html
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: Bash
  Description     : A script that tests which standard security features are being used

Modern Linux distributions offer some mitigation techniques to make it
harder to exploit software vulnerabilities reliably. Mitigations such
as RELRO, NoExecute (NX), Stack Canaries, Address Space Layout
Randomization (ASLR) and Position Independent Executables (PIE) have
made reliably exploiting any vulnerabilities that do exist far more
challenging. The checksec script is designed to test which standard
security features are being used.