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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:12:09 +0200
From: yersinia <yersinia.spiros@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: libdbus hardening
Dunno if OT.
But exists in other linux libc implementation similar more secure
alternatives to getenv ?
Thanks
2012/7/11, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:05:03AM +0200, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
>> Ok. We are not in a hurry. I added the new patch to
>>
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697105
>>
>> using __secure_getenv().
>
> You could want to add a #warning after the #else (when __secure_getenv
> is not detected by the configure script), although I'd prefer these
> things to be fail-close (build failing if __secure_getenv is expected to
> be present, but is not detected). This is an issue with
> security-related autoconf checks in general.
>
> Alexander
>
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