Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:05:32 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: linux_base insecurity (Re: Status of Linux upgrade) Message-ID: <20010219160532.A55565@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <3A8B5736.6780E776@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:12:38PM -0800 References: <3A868C21.BAF18F98@outpost.co.nz> <3A8B5736.6780E776@cup.hp.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:12:38PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Craig Harding wrote: > > > > I was wondering if any work was being done on upgrading the Linux > > emulation from its current RedHat 6.1 base to something more recent? > > No, not yet. We need to upgrade this port for security reasons - the downside to having such good Linux compatibility is that we get a lot of their security vulnerabilities too. Can someone else look at this? > > Alternatively, could anyone give me some pointers on what would be > > involved in upgrading some of the libraries in an existing 6.1 > > installation to current versions? Specifically, > > (/compat/linux)/lib/libpthread-0.8.so? > > The makefile defines a variable UPDATES. This can contain all libraries > installed by the port and present in the `updates/6.1/$ARCH` directory > on any mirror. > > > I would like to try using a newer libpthread to see if this fixes the > > problem, I know RH7 appears to use 0.9 but my various naive attempts at > > upgrading the Linuxilator libraries have been spectacularly > > unsuccessful. > > New libraries normally trigger changes in the kernel module as well. > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org > tel: (408) 447-4222 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message > [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6kbTMWry0BWjoQKURAuyWAJ9SB25bPk7Pn6tjH/IDNIIesP/okgCfYUvJ rpNLy2oGL3TwIbDZbEdL8PM= =WZXe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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