Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X and hardened

[Simon Strandman]

Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) skrev:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:49:22 +0200
> Simon Strandman <simon.strandman@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I installed modular X on my server running hardened.
>>
>
> X on a server?  If it's just for the libs that's ok, but running the X
> server itself is risky on a server as it's huge and suid so flaws can
> easily gain root access.  One such was discovered just the other week
> (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1526).
>
I have my reasons. I need to run VNC on it.
>
>> It was quite
>> annoying to have to switch back and forth betwen the vanilla gcc and
>> the hardened. I couldn't leave it on compiling over the night but had
>> to monitor it all the time. Is this really necessary? Why can't the
>> modular X eclass just append the appropriate CFLAGS/LDFLAGS that
>> disables bind now or whatever it is thar breaks X instead?
>>
>
> It could, if we had the time to get it working.  It should work
> passing '-nonow' to all invocations of gcc that do linking of relevant
> bits, but for some reason when people have tried that it hasn't worked -
> see bug #110506. We (hardened) haven't had the time to investigate
> further, and we don't want to complicate the stabilisation effort of
> modular X (which is a big enough job as it is) so we've left it as it
> is for the moment.  We'll probably start looking at it again once it
> becomes stable (also upstream have a pending task to resolve the issue
> properly, but don't hold your breath).
>
> P.S. there's a hardened mailing list that is relevant.
>
Ok, thanks for the explanation! I'll keep track on that bug.


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