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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)
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:12:38PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Craig Harding wrote:
> >=20
> > 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?
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> New libraries normally trigger changes in the kernel module as well.
>=20
> --=20
> Marcel Moolenaar
>   mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
>   tel:  (408) 447-4222
>=20
>=20
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