[uClibc] RE: [uClibc-cvs] svn commit: trunk/uClibc/ldso/ldso: armcris i386 m68k mips powerpc sh sh64 etc...

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at lumentis.se
Fri Mar 18 07:34:40 UTC 2005


> On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:40 pm, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Thu Mar 17, 2005 at 06:38:15PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > Okay, stated another way:
> > >
> > > Considering that we haven't had this for the past X years and
> > > have gotten along fine without it, what use cases actually
> > > _need_ it?  (What does adding it buy us, other than "being like
> > > glibc"?)

It has been requested on the ml a few times. Last reference I have is
http://cvs.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2004-September/009898.html

> >
> > Thus far it has helped clean up some ugly bits of divergence
> > between the different architectures.  So at least from that
> > standpoint it has thus far been a win...
> >
> > I've not checked every arch, but for mips at least,
> > ld-uClibc-0.9.27.so is now 28 bytes smaller,
> >
> >  -Erik
> 
> I'm all for infrastructure cleanup, I just want to make sure from a security 
> standpoint that if we start being able to run stuff via the loader that we 
> don't open up the old "bypass noexec mounts" security hole from way back.  
> Hence wanting to be able to switch it off in menuconfig, just to be sure...

Does glibc suffer from this security hole?



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