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From: Antoine Martin <antoine@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] mysql 4.1 requires shlib_t:file execmod?
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:31:59
Message-Id: 1130189383.17424.11.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] mysql 4.1 requires shlib_t:file execmod? by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 23:23 +0200, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
2 > On 24 Oct 2005 at 20:15, Antoine Martin wrote:
3 > > But this is not the right way to do it, I admit this is only a very tiny
4 > > security risk, but I would much rather figure out a way to fix the
5 > > library to not require execmod. No other library requires it, and the
6 > > previous version of mysql I was using (4.0) didn't either.
7 >
8 > indeed, the underlying reason is what we remedied, or so i
9 > thought so i'm all the more curious how you ended up with
10 > textrels again. fwiw, i can't find any DES related symbols
11 > in 4.1.14 and 5.0.13, so i'm wondering if it's USE flag
12 > dependent maybe (in which case mysql is probably statically
13 > linking a crypto library). what are yours?
14 USE="-X mysql sasl ipv6 nptl hardened"
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16 dev-db/mysql-4.1.14 +berkdb -big-tables -cluster -debug -doc -extraengine -geometry -minimal +perl +readline +selinux +ssl -static +tcpd -utf8
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19 Antoine
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