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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 18:38:28 +0200
From: andreas@...mhold.de
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Multiple BIND vulnerabilities disclosed
 (CVE-2018-5743, CVE-2019-6467, and CVE-2019-6468)

On 12:13 25.04.19, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> It is a bit unfortunate that these security fixes now use
> isc_atomic_xadd() which are not available on all architectures:
> 
> .libs/client.o: In function `mark_tcp_active':
> client.c:(.text+0xc7c): undefined reference to `isc_atomic_xadd'
> client.c:(.text+0xca0): undefined reference to `isc_atomic_xadd'
> .libs/client.o: In function `client_accept':
> client.c:(.text+0x2210): undefined reference to `isc_atomic_xadd'
> client.c:(.text+0x230c): undefined reference to `isc_atomic_xadd'
> .libs/client.o: In function `exit_check':
> client.c:(.text+0x2958): undefined reference to `isc_atomic_xadd'
> .libs/client.o:client.c:(.text+0x5cb4): more undefined references to `isc_atomic_xadd' follow
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

There is a commit [1] on ISCs GitLab that removes the atomic operations
in favor of refcounting and thus fixes the aarch64 (and other archs?)
build error.

I applied that commit for NixOS. Looks good so far [2].


cheers, andi-

[1] https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/commit/d72f436b7d7c697b262968c48c2d7643069ab17f
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/60330/checks

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