Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.7 stabilization

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 10 April 2008, José Luis Rivero (yoswink) wrote:
> Mike Frysinger escribió:
> > glibc-2.7 has sat in ~arch for much longer than i would have liked.  the
> > only real issue holding it back is nscd.
>
> In alpha we still have a bastard called 205099[1]. We need to track down
> the real problem there and fix it before we can mark 2.7 even ~alpha.
> Any help from toolchain ninjas is more than welcome. Thanks.

as noted, that needs to be fixed in the kernel.  working around it in glibc 
doesnt make the issue go away.  you could even call it a security vuln since 
any non-root user can take down the machine.
-mike

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