Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: [gentoo-security] #342619 RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>]

On 28/10/2010 02:14, Pavel Labushev wrote:
>> eruption or something else. Now collection is expanded to patches that
>> will not be mainstreamed :>  This is GOOD PRACTICE :). Thinking about
> Another distros do include patches for glibc not accepted by mainstream.
>
> In this particular case the patch is pretty trivial. And how many users
> actually need those LD_* vars to be handled for setuid/setgid binaries?
> My bet it's less than 1% of them, and even less than 0.1% of Hardened users.
>
> And what's the problem with including the patch only for glibc[hardened]
> and/or glibc[-debug]? I guess that's what at least Hardened users want:
> to proactively secure their system, even at the expense of some
> debugging facilities (PIE vs<gdb-7.1 as an example).
>
> To reject the patch without any explaination was one man's decision I do
> not agree personally, especially after Gentoo security team failed to
> fix the recent glibc vulns in a timely manner.
>
> On another point, if some users want this particular patch to be
> included, they should speak for themselves. By now I don't see much
> interest even among #gentoo-hardened people.
>

I don't understand why upstream are against taking this patch?  Can you 
expand?

Your argument seems compelling - I just don't understand why there is 
any resistance?

Cheers

Ed W