Changeset 881d8cf

Timestamp:

05/19/2020 06:50:13 AM (3 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, kea, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

1e5da9b

Parents:

5686268

Message:

Fix sharutils to avoid -fcommon and also a possible heap overflow

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@23167 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• general/genutils/sharutils.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "18">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "19">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "05">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2020">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "May 18th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "May 19th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

general/genutils/sharutils.xml

@@ -80 +80 @@
 
     <para>
+      Fix a heap buffer overflow, and an issue exposed by GCC-10:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/BUFSIZ/rw_base_size/' src/unshar.c &amp;&amp;
+sed -i '/program_name/s/^/extern /' src/*opts.h</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
       Install <application>Sharutils</application> by running
       the following commands:
@@ -87 +94 @@
 echo "#define _IO_IN_BACKUP 0x100" >> lib/stdio-impl.h &amp;&amp;
 
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fcommon" ./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
+./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
     -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>May 19th, 2020</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Two fixes for sharutils: prevent a heap overflow
+          and avoid the use of -fcommon.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>May 18th, 2020</para>
       <itemizedlist>