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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:51:30 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: libdbus hardening
On 07/10/2012 04:30 PM, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
>> If this is not for upstream and you only need it working on a particular
>> distro with glibc, then why not use __secure_getenv()?
>
> Indeed, if it is a exported symbol on the glibc versions we ship,
> we should consider this. I remember a discussion that it was somehow
> not available in the past.
__secure_getenv() is declared and documented in <stdlib.h>, so it's not
likely to go away, especially if we start using it more widely.
--
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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