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On Thursday 10 April 2008, José Luis Rivero (yoswink) wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger escribió: |
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> > glibc-2.7 has sat in ~arch for much longer than i would have liked. the |
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> > only real issue holding it back is nscd. |
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> In alpha we still have a bastard called 205099[1]. We need to track down |
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> the real problem there and fix it before we can mark 2.7 even ~alpha. |
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> Any help from toolchain ninjas is more than welcome. Thanks. |
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as noted, that needs to be fixed in the kernel. working around it in glibc |
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doesnt make the issue go away. you could even call it a security vuln since |
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any non-root user can take down the machine. |
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-mike |
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