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Bug#720735: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs uses ldd, which is insecure and generates core dumps



On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 02:13 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2013-08-25 00:47:36 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > What?  It belongs to glibc;
> > 
> > $ dpkg -S /libx32
> > libc6-x32: /libx32
> 
> If libc6-x32 is not installed, this directory doesn't belong to
> anything!
> 
> $ dpkg -S /libx32
> dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /libx32
> 
> So, there's nothing wrong in mounting it via NFS, and the system
> mustn't use it!

No, this has a defined meaning in FHS:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIBLTQUALGTALTERNATEFORMATESSENTIAL

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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