The glibc package does not respect a standard convention to put the
executables in the first output which should be as clear as possible
to anyone seeking to use such executables (e.g. `ldd`). This commit
adds a detailed comment a the top of `common.nix` explaining the
deviation from the convention and how to reference the binaries.
Security: the NEWS claims a couple more CVEs are fixed than what we
patched, though perhaps nothing critical.
I personally don't find DNS fragmentation attacks that interesting
anymore, as it's just about weaker improvements for cases that choose
not to use DNSSEC.
Largest expected caveat: upstream bumped the minimal supportable kernel
to 3.2.0. That's the oldest kernel still supported upstream, released
in Jan 2012, but most notably RHEL 6 and derivates still use a heavily
patched 2.6.32 kernel and those systems are still supported and in use
(production support is scheduled to last till the end of 2020!).
In #28519 / 791ce593ce I made linux
headers be intended to be used from the stage stage, as it would be if
it were a library containing headers and code. I forgot to update glibc,
however, so it was incorrectly using headers for the build platform, not
host platform.
This fixes that, basically reverting a small portion of changes I made a
few months ago in 25edc476fd and its
parent.
No native hashes are changed.
Now it's not an actual archive but a linker script, and the absolute
paths in there were broken due to moving *.a into $static.
Let's fix this up in all *.a in case there are more in future.
This reverts commit 1daf2e26d2, reversing
changes made to c0c50dfcb7.
It seems this is what has been causing all the reliability problems
on Hydra. I'm currently unable to find why it happens, so I'm forced
to revert the update for now. Discussion: #22874.
Enables previously manually disabled stackprotector and stackguard
randomization.
From https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511811:
If glibc is built with the --enable-stackguard-randomization option,
each application gets a random canary value (at runtime) from /dev/urandom.
If --enable-stackguard-randomization is absent, applications get a static
canary value of "0xff0a0000". This is very unfortunate, because the
attacker may be able to bypass the stack protection mechanism, by placing
those 4 bytes in the canary word, before the actual canary check is
performed (for example in memcpy-based buffer overflows).
